Hi Scott,
cool thanks, yes that helped (I appreciate your response!)
However, my main problem is what do I need to do in the template files?
According to the intake-service doc, under the "Attribute Value example"
section, I am suppose to have the following 2 lines (as well as others
but I don't quite understand these 2 lines):
## what do these lines do really?
#set ( $attributeValue = $issue.AttributeValue("URL") )
#set ( $group = $intake.AttributeValue.mapTo($attributeValue) )
I don't use scarab and the first line references something from it.
I believe John McNally (?) or someone else here is an expert on scarab
and I was hoping s/he might able to enlighten me...but s/he has yet to
respond unfortunately. Do you know what these lines are about, or what I
need to put in the template to get this all working?
Many thanks again Scott!
Regards,
Dan
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Weaver, Scott wrote:
> > How does one use the "mapTo" feature of intake to map form data to
> > business objects (manually created, not by torque)? Here are
> > the steps
> > I think I need to get it done so far...
>
> For your business objects to be intake-compatible they must implement the
> org.apache.turbine.om.Retrievable interface or if you are using the
> decoupled fulcrum Intake service, org.apache.fulcrum.intake.Retrievable.
>
> Intake uses introspection to set the values of your B/O's from HTML form
> fields and vice-versa. The fields defined within a group need to be able to
> be mapped into your B/O. In most cases you will set "name" attribute to
> match the property within your B/O. If you want the field name to be
> something other than the B/O's property's name it maps to, you will need to
> supply the "mapToProperty" attribute of that field to be the same as the
> property in your B/O.
>
>
> hth,
> Scott
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan K. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 6:30 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: intake's mapTo usage?
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've read up the intake-service documentation but it's quite
> > confusing and
> > the mail archive doesn't really address my newbie intake question:
> >
> > How does one use the "mapTo" feature of intake to map form data to
> > business objects (manually created, not by torque)? Here are
> > the steps
> > I think I need to get it done so far...
> >
> > In the intake.xml file:
> > - there must be a group tag with the "name", "key", and "mapToObject"
> > attribute set, similar to:
> > <group name="MyGroup" key="MyGroupKey" mapToObject="MyBusinessObject">
> >
> > - the mapToObject="MyBusinessObject" has a corresponding
> > MyBusinessObject.java with appropriate get/set methods for
> > the attributes
> > in question. Is this right?
> >
> > - add in some fields to the group (with their rules), similar to:
> > <field name="Username" key="Username" type="String">
> > <rule name="required" value="true">Username is required</rule>
> > ...some more rules if desired...
> > </field>
> >
> > In the corresponding "Action" class:
> > - get an instance of the intake object from the context, and set the
> > business object with the corresponding group field values from intake,
> > similar to:
> > IntakeTool intake = (IntakeTool)context.get("intake");
> > Group group = intake.get("MyGroup", IntakeTool.DEFAULT_KEY);
> > MyBusinessObject myBO = new MyBusinessObject();
> > if (group.isAllValid()) {
> > group.setProperties(myBO);
> > }
> > // at this point, myBO should be populated with the
> > correct attribute
> > // values, right? So I can print it out like this:
> > System.out.println("myBO = "+myBO.toString());
> >
> > In the template file (.vm file):
> > - include this in a <form> tag:
> > $intake.declareGroups()
> > - and then what?
> >
> > I noticed in the intake-service doc it says to do something
> > similar to:
> > #set ( $attributeValue = $issue.AttributeValue("URL") )
> > #set ( $group = $intake.AttributeValue.mapTo($attributeValue) )
> >
> > But that's something from scarab, of which I have no clue
> > about...especially the first #set statement.
> >
> > If someone can detail this out, then I'd appreciate it very much! TIA.
> > I'm sure it'll be useful as a basis for an "intake quick start how-to"
> > as well.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dan
> >
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