Customizing Events and Public Render Parameters of JSR-286 Portlets¶

This appendix explains how to change the name of the events and public render parameters (from now on, PRP) that a Denodo portlet can publish and process. This only applies to JSR-286 portlets.

A Denodo portlet processes and publishes an event for each field of the view that publishes. It also reads the value of a PRP and sets the value of another PRP, for each field of the view.

For example, if a Denodo portlet publishes a view that has a field called account_name, the portlet processes the event Input_account_name and publishes the event Selected_account_name. It also reads the value of the PRP Input_account_name and set the value of the PRP Selected_account_name.

When the portlet receives the event Input_account_name, it adds a condition to the WHERE clause of the query executed by the portlet to retrieve the data. I.e. “SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE account_name = <value received from the event>”.

If the user clicks on the link of the portlet to select a row, the portlet publishes one event for each field of the view. Each event has the value of the field in the selected cell. The name of these events is Selected_<field name>.

The name of the events and parameters can be customized so their name matches the name of an event/PRP of another portlet. This is necessary if you want to deploy a Denodo portlet in a portal that does not support event wiring.

We will explain how to customize these names with an example:

Let us say that we want to deploy two widgets:

• A widget that publishes the view internet_inc, which has a field called iinc_id.

• And a widget that publishes the view phone_inc, which has a field called pinc_id.

We will explain how to map the event “Selected_iinc_id” published by the portlet “internet_inc” with the event “Input_PINC_ID” that the portlet “phone_inc” can process.

Follow these steps:

1. Publish the views “internet_inc” and “phone_inc” as widgets. You will find the generated war files in the URL https://<host name of the Denodo server>:9090/export/.

2. Edit the portlet.xml file of phone_inc.war (located in the directory /WEB-INF/ of the war file).

   Note that “phone_inc” is the portlet that will receive the events sent by “internet_inc”.

   Do the following changes:

   1. Search for the <preference> with <name>IPC_NAME_PINC_ID</name> and replace Input_PINC_ID with Selected_iinc_id, which is the name of the event sent by the portlet internet_inc and that we want phone_inc to process it. That is, you have to replace this:

      <preference>
          <name>IPC_NAME_PINC_ID</name>
          <value>Input_PINC_ID</value>
          <value>Selected_PINC_ID</value>
         <read-only>true</read-only>
      </preference>
      

      with this:

      <preference>
          <name>IPC_NAME_PINC_ID</name>
          <value>Selected_iinc_id</value>
          <value>Selected_PINC_ID</value>
         <read-only>true</read-only>
      </preference>
      

      The first <value> of the preferences that start with IPC_NAME maps the name of a processing event and a PRP, with the name of a field. The default value is Input_PINC_ID, which means that when the portlet receives an event called Input_PINC_ID, it will add a condition to the query executed by the portlet (i.e. “PINC_ID= <value sent by the event>”).

      The second <value> of these preferences is the name of the event and PRP that will be published, which will include the value of the field PINC_ID in the selected row.

   2. Search the element <supported-processing-event> with the <qname> Input_PINC_ID. Replace Input_PINC_ID with Selected_iinc_id.

   3. Search the element <supported-public-render-parameter>Input_PINC_ID</supported-public-render-parameter>

      Replace Input_PINC_ID with Selected_iinc_id.

   4. Search the element <event-definition> with the <qname> Input_PINC_ID. Replace Input_PINC_ID with Selected_iinc_id.

   5. Search the element <public-render-parameter> with the <identifier> Input_PINC_ID. In the <qname> and the <identifier> elements, replace Input_PINC_ID with Selected_iinc_id.

3. Replace the portlet.xml of phone_inc.war with the new one.

4. Deploy the war files of the two portlets as usual.