Hello all, Is it with a XMLMenuModel possible to dynamically "influence"/determine the menu items that get rendered or not?
Basic problem/idea: we have an application with a large number of menu and submenu items. The application is used by users with different roles. Each role has access to different parts of the application. A user with a certain role should only see the menu items to which that role is authorized. We want to define the menu as an XMLMenuModel in one XML file and determine (dynamically) the rendering of menu items based on the access-rights of the role(s) of the user who is logged on. We tried several solutions but none of them solved our problem. Now we are thinking of two possible approaches: 1) "Filter" the nodes of them menu XML that is being read by the XMLMenuModel when it is creating its model. But we could not determine how/where to "hook in" our filter to do this. Maybe we can use the source-property of the managed bean to define an URI of a servlet? 2) MenuContentHandlerImpl : define our own MenuContentHandlerImpl. But we could not figure out how to "register" our own MenuContentHandlerImpl with the XMLMenuModel. Could anyone please advice if one of these approaches is the way to go? And if so, how to go about it? Or should we take a completely different approach? Could we use Custom Node Attributes maybe? Any help/insight will be greatly appreciated! Joop. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Trinidad-XMLMenuModel%3A-dynamically-constructing-menus-based-on-access-rights--tp21743693p21743693.html Sent from the MyFaces - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
