Customization

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

SUMMARY

• Hooks
• Useful objects

Hooks

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

void loadObjects()

This method loads the objects for the map view. In the predefined example it calls loadMarkers . 

loadMarkers()

This is  an example method that defines new "Marker" objects and add them in "Map"  list.

Position markerPosition = new Position( new BigDecimal( 44.405650), new BigDecimal( 8.946256 ));
map.addMarker( new Marker( "Genova", "ManyDesigns Office", markerPosition, "http://www.manydesigns.com"));

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.