RE: PortletBrowseAction.java

[Jeremy Ford <ca...@hotmail.com>]

I have copied the Jetspeed Development list into the discussion.  This is 
the preferred mechanism for questions of this nature.

In answer to you questions, I am not sure how the Group attribute on 
categories was originally supposed to work.  You assessment of how it should 
work seems plausible to me, but unfortunately, that is not how it works 
currently.  I believe that David Sean Taylor helped with the category 
implementation and may have more insight.

When I wrote the portlet browsing filter functionality, I intentionally set 
it up to work this way.  The reason is that is the way the customizer's 
category filter has worked in the past.  I did not want to change the 
behavior of the customizer filter and did not want to have a filter that did 
not work the same way in the portlet browser.

If you wish to change it, I would suggest doing the following (off the top 
of my head).  Add a new filterPortlets method to the PortletFilter that 
takes a user as a parameter.  Change both CustomizerSetAction and 
PortletBrowserAction to make use of this.

If you do make any changes and wish to seem them incorporated into Jetspeed, 
please create a bug/enhancement report in JIRA 
(http://nagoya.apache.org/jira) and add a patch file with you changes.

Thanks.

Jeremy Ford.
jford@apache.org


>From: Dan.Price@equifax.com
>To: jford@apache.org
>Subject: PortletBrowseAction.java
>Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:47:51 -0400
>
>Mr. Ford:
>
>I'm a devloper working with Jetspeed, and I'm curious about an
>implementation issue with PortletBrowseAction.java.  I've been attempting
>to configure my copy of Jetspeed as follows:  I have a series of portlets
>who are defined in the portlet registry with a category entry of <category
>group="Unity">Unity</category> or <category
>group="Unity">Unity.admin</category>.  However, when I try to filter for
>portlets in the "Unity" or "Unity.admin" categories, I don't get any
>results back.
>
>I traced the issue, and discovered that in PortletBrowseAction, it
>eventually calls PortletFilter.isFilteredIn, which calls
>BasePortletEntry.hasCategory with one-argument.  This version of the
>hasCategory method calls the two-argument version with a default group of
>"Jetspeed".  So, the end result is that you can't set a different group
>name on any portlets and have the category filter work.
>
>I thought that the group attribute of the category element corresponded to
>the Group attribute of a user, so that you would filter and only see
>portlets that you had group access to.  Is this how it's supposed to work?
>
>I've been looking at how to change this, but I'm pretty new to Jetspeed
>internals, so I can't see the correct approach.  I think it should
>probably try the two-argument hasCategory method for every group a user is
>in, but I don't see how to get the group information from the JetspeedUser
>object at the time the filtering is done.  Do you have any thoughts on
>this?
>
>I apologize if this is the wrong way to go about discussing this.
>
>Dan Price

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Re: PortletBrowseAction.java

[David Sean Taylor <da...@bluesunrise.com>]

On Jun 4, 2004, at 11:32 AM, Jeremy Ford wrote:

> I have copied the Jetspeed Development list into the discussion.  This 
> is the preferred mechanism for questions of this nature.
>
> In answer to you questions, I am not sure how the Group attribute on 
> categories was originally supposed to work.  You assessment of how it 
> should work seems plausible to me, but unfortunately, that is not how 
> it works currently.  I believe that David Sean Taylor helped with the 
> category implementation and may have more insight.
>

Groups are simply a way to 'group together' categories into, well, 
groups.
The API allows you to filter portlets by group or category or both
There are no real hierarchies, its simply attributes.


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