Comments on: Decentralized categories in OpenCms 7.5

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:05:53 +0000

Hi Paul,

thanks for publishing the example! That’s really nice of you.

All the best,
Sebastian

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:49:18 +0000

When I first set out to test the category concept, I had trouble finding any example code. So to anyone who’s experiencing that, here’s a simple JSP to get you started:

<%
final String REFERENCE_PATH = "/en/categories/"; // the reference (category) path
final String CATEGORY_NAME = "my-category"; // folder name of the category folder
final boolean INCLUDE_SUB_CATEGORIES = false;

CmsJspActionElement cms = new CmsJspActionElement(pageContext, request, response);
CmsObject cmso = cms.getCmsObject();

CmsCategoryService catService = CmsCategoryService.getInstance(); // Get the singleton
List res = catService.readCategoryResources(cmso, CATEGORY_NAME, INCLUDE_SUB_CATEGORIES, REFERENCE_PATH); // read resources that belong to the specified category

// Print the returned list of resources
out.println("Resources with category ‘\ + CATEGORY_NAME + \’: \ + res.size() + \\);
Iterator i = res.iterator();
while (i.hasNext()) {
out.println(\\ + ((CmsResource)i.next()).getName());
}
%>

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:47:01 +0000

Maybe it’s just part of becoming a dad.. too many thoughts

Are you actually working again or just in the office because you can’t stay away from Java?

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:10:30 +0000

unbelievable, you are absolutely right… it is just so much time ago, i think i am getting old

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:30:40 +0000

Hi Michael,

thanks for the info. To be honest: I think there are a lot of features that nobody uses because they are like hidden gems. I already have a lot of draft posts on them and this was also my idea for the 2009 OpenCms Days talk (which I couldn’t do because of time constraints).

Are you sure about the 7.0.0? Because the history.txt mentions the addition of decentralized categories in the 7.5 beta 1.

I hope everything is well with you.

All the best,
Sebastian

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:44:03 +0000

we were just discussing in the office that this might be one of those features that nobody knows or uses but makes our work (for v8) much more complicated
just for completeness this feature was already available in version 7.0.0…
and i am happy somebody is really using it!!