Modified Frontpage data model

["Matthew P. Schmidt" <ma...@dzone.com>]

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

Problem telling roller to use custom FileManager

["Matthew P. Schmidt" <ma...@dzone.com>]

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
>>

Re: Modified Frontpage data model

[Allen Gilliland <al...@sun.com>]

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
>