Customization

A Gallery page extends com.manydesigns.portofino.pageactions.map.MapAction, you can override any method of it.

SUMMARY

• Hooks
• Useful objects

Hooks

GalleryAction defines several hooks, predefined methods in Portofino, to extend its behavior.

void loadImages()

This method loads the images for the gallery view. 

This is  an example code that defines new "Image" objects and add them in "gallery"  list.

Image img = new Image("Image 1","Image 1","","","/images/image1.png","/images/image1_thumb.jpg")
gallery.addImage( img )

Useful objects

The action give to you the following objects that you can use in your methods:

context

The Stripes context, e.g. you can obtain the request from it.

originalPath

A string with the current path. 

model

A com.manydesigns.portofino.model.Model, which stores all the information about the databases (e.g. tables, columns, ...).

portofinoConfiguration

This object stores all the configuration properties.

application

The Application object which store all common data of your application(e.g. all Hibernate sessions).

logger

The org.slf4j.Logger that you can use to log your activities.