Hi guys. We're in the middle of trying to replace the stock
FileManagerImpl with our own implementation and there are two issues.
First, getRealPath is private, which if it wasn't, we could just
subclass FileManagerImpl and change that code, since its private, it
looks like we need to copy nearly all the code. Second, it doesn't
appear that the property in roller-custom.properties:
persistence.filemanager.classname=org.apache.roller.business.FileManagerImpl
is actually doing anything :) Is this the right property to override?
We're running 3.1 right now on Tomcat 6.
-Matt
Allen Gilliland wrote:
Sure, you can populate the page with whatever you want.
I would check out the PageModel and SiteModel classes and look at the
methods those provide. Those both provide a handful of ways to get
collections of entries that you could use to display on your frontpage.
Alternatively, the rendering process is very pluggable, so you can
create your own model classes if you want and those classes can
contain access to anything at all. You could use them to pull data
from Roller that isn't usually exposed, you could pull data from
custom tables in your database if you need to, or you could pull data
from web services or anywhere else you want.
-- Allen
Matthew P. Schmidt wrote:
Hi guys. At JRoller we had a custom frontpage data model that
fetched only the entries in a certain set of categories. This was a
hack and required us to override too much code. Is there a cleaner
way for us to replace the entry list coming to the frontpage theme
(we're building a new one anyway)?
Thanks,
Matt
