Export to JSR-168 or JSR-286 Portlet¶

A widget can be exported to a JSR-168 or JSR-286 portlet, so it can then be deployed it in any standard Java Portal Server.

When clicking on JSR-168 or JSR-286 in the “Export” column of the Widgets Status Table, the user will have to fill in:

• URI of the Virtual DataPort server that the portlet will obtain the data from.

• Credentials to access to it.

This will generate a “.war” file ready to be deployed in any standard Java Portal Server. This file can be obtained from:

• The URL https://<host name of the Denodo server>:9090/export/<name of the widget>.war

• Or in the host where the Denodo server runs, in <DENODO_HOME>/resources/apache-tomcat/webapps/export/<name of the widget>.war

This portlet will display the contents of the published view or stored procedure. In the EDIT mode, the portlet displays a query form where you can configure (see Portlet search form):

• Query parameters that will be used to filter the contents of the exported view.

• Hide some of the columns of the results table.

• Results table settings: rows per page, height and width of the results table and its cells, and columns whose HTML code will not be escaped (if a cell of a selected column contains HTML, it will not be escaped)

The main difference between the two types of portlets is that the JSR-168 version can only display the content of a view. On the other hand, the JSR-286 version can interact with other portlets by sending/receiving events or sharing public render parameters (see the Java Portlet Specification version 2.0 to learn more about these terms)

The JSR-286 portlet can interact with other portlets by:

• Sending simple events. When the user selects a row of the table by clicking the icon of the first cell of the row (see JSR286 Portlet), the portlet sends a simple event for every cell of that row. The payload of each event is the content of a cell.

• Sending row events. When the user selects a row of the table, the portlet sends an event containing an object of the type com.denodo.vdb.wsgenerator.common.execution.portlet.vo.DataRow

  This object contains the data of the selected row.

• Sending table events. When the user clicks on the icon in the first cell of the header, the portlet sends an event containing an object of the type com.denodo.vdb.wsgenerator.common.execution.portlet.vo.DataTable

  This option is enabled only if the option Custom table events is selected (tab “Widget configuration” of the “Create widget” dialog)

  This object contains all the data of the results table.

  To be able to develop a portlet capable of receiving the DataRow and the DataTable events, you need to add a reference to the library <DENODO_HOME>/lib/portlet-client-core/portlet-client-core.jar

• Receive an event. The JSR-286 portlet can receive an event for every parameter of the query form. The name of these events follows the convention “Input_”<name of the search parameter>

• Sharing public render parameters. There is one render parameter for each column of the results table and a render parameter for each parameter of the search form.

The appendix Customizing Events and Public Render Parameters of JSR-286 Portlets explains how to customize the names of the events and public render parameters that a Denodo portlet can publish/process.

JSR286 Portlet¶

Portlet search form¶