Customization

A many to many page extends com.manydesigns.portofino.pageactions.m2m.ManyToManyAction, you can override any method of it.

SUMMARY

• Hooks
• Useful objects

Hooks

ManyToManyAction defines the following hooks, predefined methods to extend its behavior.

void prepareSave(Object newRelation)

This method is called before saving a new relationship and can be customized to manage pre conditions.

Object saveNewRelation(Object pk, PropertyAccessor onePropertyAccessor, PropertyAccessor manyPropertyAccessor)

This method is responsible to persist the new relationship on the db.

• pk, the primary of the Relation
• onePropertyAccessor, accessor to the one property
• manyPropertyAccessor, accessor to the many property

void deleteRelation(Object rel)

This method is responsible to delete the relationship. E.g. you can customize this method for notification. 

Parameter: rel, the relationship

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.