Customization

A Text Page extends  com.manydesigns.portofino.pageactions.text.TextAction you can override any method of it.

SUMMARY

• Hooks
• Useful objects

Hooks

TextAction defines the following hooks, that are predefined methods in Portofino, to extend its behavior.

String computeTextFileName()

This hook allows you to define file name that contains the page's content (default is text.html). This may be useful to manage files in different languages changing them programmatically.

Return super.computeTextFileName()

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.