[uportal-dev] Channel rendering cycle

[Eric Dalquist]

Believe it or not the new portlet adapter channel for pluto 1.1 will be the first channel I've ever written. To that end I want to make sure I have some things figured out correctly.

init
   setStaticData

render
   setPortalControlStructures
   setRuntimeData
   generateKey
   isCacheValid
   renderCharacters


   setPortalControlStructures
   setRuntimeData
   doAction

event

   receiveEvent




Thanks,
-Eric

The channel implements the IPortletAdapter, ICharacterChannel, IPrivilegedChannel and ICacheable interfaces. From what I've seen the following method call ordering is what I should expect for each type of event targeting a channel: action //This doesn't exist yet but will be added to the IPortletAdapter interface setPortalControlStructures //This call doesn't happen before receiveEvent currently but the change will be made in the framework to ensure it does If those are correct, does it seem valid to clear out references to the ChannelRuntimeData and PortalControlStructures at the end of the renderCharacters, doAction and receiveEvent methods?

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