SlingModels: How to build the form component from foundation (inject PageContext?) - aem

The foundation component from AEM are just plain JSP without much logic in any java bean. I now try to convert the form components java logic into Sling Models. But the start component again is not easy as there are two things to be done (copied from /libs/foundation/components/form/start/start.jsp).
First:
FormsHelper.startForm(slingRequest, new JspSlingHttpServletResponseWrapper(pageContext));
Second:
componentContext.setDecorate(true);
The slingRequest is easy, when I adapt my model from it, but where to I get the pageContext from? I also need it to get the componentContext which can be retrieved through the pageContext.
I tried the following while adapting through SlingHttpServletRequest:
#SlingObject
private PageContext pc;
But this doesn't work.
EDIT:
I figured out how to create the form start component without the pageContext. Though together with the form start, there is the form end and there is one part that uses the pageContext directly (copied from /libs/foundation/components/form/end/end.jsp)
final boolean isSubmittable = FormsHelper.checkRule(resource, slingRequest, pageContext, "submittableRule");
if (isSubmittable || isEditMode) {
Not sure what this boolean is for or rather why it is checked before rendering the buttons.
So either I need a way to inject the pageContext or I need another way to build this form component with Sling Models.

You don't necessarily need to follow same approach, if you look at javadocs, you can use startForm(SlingHttpServletRequest request, SlingHttpServletResponse response) throws IOException, ServletException

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Synchronization of multiple catalogs in hybris

I need help on this issue. I am upgrading hybris to version 2105, I ran into the problem that the 'DefaultSetupSyncJobService' class has changed its methods from 'SyncItemJob' to 'SyncItemJobModel'. How could I adapt these classes so that the catalogs are correctly synchronized ?
The new implementation for synchronization is stored in CatalogSynchronizationService.synchronizeFully(source,target) for a full synchronization. There are other methods to perform partial syncs with a select subset of items aswell in that service.
Do note that this will always create new SyncItemCronJobModel objects instead of reusing an existing syncjob. Depending on what you want, you can modify the implementation somewhat to reuse the same syncjob. The code then becomes something like this:
catalogSynchronizationService.getSyncJob(source, target, null);
instead of calling createSyncItemJob(...)
The rest is the same as the original implementation. So customized implementation of synchronizeFully could look something like(Extend from DefaultCatalogSynchronizationService)
public void synchronizeFully(final CatalogVersionModel source, final CatalogVersionModel target) {
final SyncItemJobModel syncJob = getSyncJob(source, target, null);
final SyncItemCronJobModel syncCronJob = createSyncCronJob(syncJob);
cronJobService.performCronJob(syncCronJob, true);
}

Changing jasper report parameters in runtime

I know, but we really need it.
We have a clear division of labor.
They create templates, I fill them in runtime according to some rules.
Can't teach my business to insert something like this and be sure they really did it ok(so can't move any logic to templates):
$P{risk_types}.get($F{risk_type}) ?: "UNDEFINED"
Also can not fill from files hardcoded in some adapter hadwritten by god-knows-who and unchangeable in runtime. It's a web app. Best option is to find a way to replace that file source from adapter to a ByteArrayStream.
SO:
Need to substitute contents of parameters(also default ones) at runtime.
example:
need to set JSON_INPUT_STREAM
Like this unsolved thread.
https://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/516611/changing-parameter-scriptlet
Really hope not to work on xml level, but xml also can't solve my problem as far as I tried.
Thank you!
The easiest and cleanest way we did this(bypassing usage of tons of deprecated documentation and unfinished bugged undocumented static antipatterned new features):
Create context with repository extension
SimpleJasperReportsContext jasperReportsContext = new SimpleJasperReportsContext();
jasperReportsContext.setExtensions(RepositoryService.class, Collections.singletonList(new MyRepositoryService(jasperReportsContext, yourOptionalParams)));
Fill this way(after compile and other usual actions)
JasperPrint print = JasperFillManager.getInstance(jasperReportsContext).fill(compiled, new HashMap<>());
Now your repository must extend default one to be hack-injected(cause of hodgie coded "isAssignableFrom") successfully
public class PrintFormsRepositoryService extends DefaultRepositoryService {
#Override
public InputStream getInputStream(RepositoryContext context, String uri) {
// return here your own good simple poj inputStream even from memory if you found source
// or pass to another repository service(default one probably)
return null;
}
}

How to obtain wicket URL from PageClass and PageParameters without running Wicket application (i.e. without RequestCycle)?

In my project, there are additional (non-wicket) applications, which need to know the URL representation of some domain objects (e.g. in order to write a link like http://mydomain.com/user/someUserName/ into a notification email).
Now I'd like to create a spring bean in my wicket module, exposing the URLs I need without having a running wicket context, in order to make the other application depend on the wicket module, e.g. offering a method public String getUrlForUser(User u) returning "/user/someUserName/".
I've been stalking around the web and through the wicket source for a complete workday now, and did not find a way to retrieve the URL for a given PageClass and PageParameters without a current RequestCycle.
Any ideas how I could achieve this? Actually, all the information I need is somehow stored by my WebApplication, in which I define mount points and page classes.
Update: Because the code below caused problems under certain circumstances (in our case, being executed subsequently by a quarz scheduled job), I dived a bit deeper and finally found a more light-weight solution.
Pros:
No need to construct and run an instance of the WebApplication
No need to mock a ServletContext
Works completely independent of web application container
Contra (or not, depends on how you look at it):
Need to extract the actual mounting from your WebApplication class and encapsulate it in another class, which can then be used by standalone processes. You can no longer use WebApplication's convenient mountPage() method then, but you can easily build your own convenience implementation, just have a look at the wicket sources.
(Personally, I have never been happy with all the mount configuration making up 95% of my WebApplication class, so it felt good to finally extract it somewhere else.)
I cannot post the actual code, but having a look at this piece of code will give you an idea how you should mount your pages and how to get hold of the URL afterwards:
CompoundRequestMapper rm = new CompoundRequestMapper();
// mounting the pages
rm.add(new MountedMapper("mypage",MyPage.class));
// ... mount other pages ...
// create URL from page class and parameters
Class<? extends IRequestablePage> pageClass = MyPage.class;
PageParameters pp = new PageParameters();
pp.add("param1","value1");
IRequestHandler handler = new BookmarkablePageRequestHandler(new PageProvider(MyPage.class, pp));
Url url = rm.mapHandler(handler);
Original solution below:
After deep-diving into the intestines of the wicket sources, I was able to glue together this piece of code
IRequestMapper rm = MyWebApplication.get().getRootRequestMapper();
IRequestHandler handler = new BookmarkablePageRequestHandler(new PageProvider(pageClass, parameters));
Url url = rm.mapHandler(handler);
It works without a current RequestCycle, but still needs to have MyWebApplication running.
However, from Wicket's internal test classes, I have put the following together to construct a dummy instance of MyWebApplication:
MyWebApplication dummy = new MyWebApplication();
dummy.setName("test-app");
dummy.setServletContext(new MockServletContext(dummy, ""));
ThreadContext.setApplication(dummy);
dummy.initApplication();

Wicket - FileUploadField, Ajax and Preview

Im using Wicket 1.5 and I need to build a component with a FileUploadField to load an image.
I need an Ajax behaviour to make a preview of image after selected it (without submiting the entire form).
Searching on Google, I found this Event that match when I select the file:
AjaxEventBehavior choose = new AjaxEventBehavior("onChange"){
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
#Override
protected void onEvent(AjaxRequestTarget target) {
Request request = RequestCycle.get().getRequest();
}
};
What I need is the stream of image to put in a little panel that required:
byte[] imgBytes
And obviously I need the same stream to fill a PropertyModel for DB storing.
Thanks
You need to use either AjaxFormSubmitBehavior (will submit the entire form on the given event) or AjaxFormComponentUpdatingBehavior (will submit only the one form component. I'm not sure whether the latter works with file uploads, just give it a try. You can always use the former.
In the model of your FileUploadField you will find a (list of) FileUpload - look at the methods you get, there are input streams and other things available so you can do pretty much anything with the data.

Enforce Hyphens in .NET MVC 4.0 URL Structure

I'm looking specifically for a way to automatically hyphenate CamelCase actions and views. That is, I'm hoping I don't have to actually rename my views or add decorators to every ActionResult in the site.
So far, I've been using routes.MapRouteLowercase, as shown here. That works pretty well for the lowercase aspect of URL structure, but not hyphens. So I recently started playing with Canonicalize (install via NuGet), but it also doesn't have anything for hyphens yet.
I was trying...
routes.Canonicalize().NoWww().Pattern("([a-z0-9])([A-Z])", "$1-$2").Lowercase().NoTrailingSlash();
My regular expression definitely works the way I want it to as far as restructuring the URL properly, but those URLs aren't identified, of course. The file is still ChangePassword.cshtml, for example, so /account/change-password isn't going to point to that.
BTW, I'm still a bit rusty with .NET MVC. I haven't used it for a couple years and not since v2.0.
This might be a tad bit messy, but if you created a custom HttpHandler and RouteHandler then that should prevent you from having to rename all of your views and actions. Your handler could strip the hyphen from the requested action, which would change "change-password" to changepassword, rendering the ChangePassword action.
The code is shortened for brevity, but the important bits are there.
public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
{
string controllerId = this.requestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("controller");
string view = this.requestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");
view = view.Replace("-", "");
this.requestContext.RouteData.Values["action"] = view;
IController controller = null;
IControllerFactory factory = null;
try
{
factory = ControllerBuilder.Current.GetControllerFactory();
controller = factory.CreateController(this.requestContext, controllerId);
if (controller != null)
{
controller.Execute(this.requestContext);
}
}
finally
{
factory.ReleaseController(controller);
}
}
I don't know if I implemented it the best way or not, that's just more or less taken from the first sample I came across. I tested the code myself so this does render the correct action/view and should do the trick.
I've developed an open source NuGet library for this problem which implicitly converts EveryMvc/Url to every-mvc/url.
Uppercase urls are problematic because cookie paths are case-sensitive, most of the internet is actually case-sensitive while Microsoft technologies treats urls as case-insensitive. (More on my blog post)
NuGet Package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/LowercaseDashedRoute/
To install it, simply open the NuGet window in the Visual Studio by right clicking the Project and selecting NuGet Package Manager, and on the "Online" tab type "Lowercase Dashed Route", and it should pop up.
Alternatively, you can run this code in the Package Manager Console:
Install-Package LowercaseDashedRoute
After that you should open App_Start/RouteConfig.cs and comment out existing route.MapRoute(...) call and add this instead:
routes.Add(new LowercaseDashedRoute("{controller}/{action}/{id}",
new RouteValueDictionary(
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }),
new DashedRouteHandler()
)
);
That's it. All the urls are lowercase, dashed, and converted implicitly without you doing anything more.
Open Source Project Url: https://github.com/AtaS/lowercase-dashed-route
Have you tried working with the URL Rewrite package? I think it pretty much what you are looking for.
http://www.iis.net/download/urlrewrite
Hanselman has a great example herE:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ASPNETMVCAndTheNewIIS7RewriteModule.aspx
Also, why don't you download something like ReSharper or CodeRush, and use it to refactor the Action and Route names? It's REALLY easy, and very safe.
It would time well spent, and much less time overall to fix your routing/action naming conventions with an hour of refactoring than all the hours you've already spent trying to alter the routing conventions to your needs.
Just a thought.
I tried the solution in the accepted answer above: Using the Canonicalize Pattern url strategy, and then also adding a custom IRouteHandler which then returns a custom IHttpHandler. It mostly worked. Here's one caveat I found:
With the typical {controller}/{action}/{id} default route, a controller named CatalogController, and an action method inside it as follows:
ActionResult QuickSelect(string id){ /*do some things, access the 'id' parameter*/ }
I noticed that requests to "/catalog/quick-select/1234" worked perfectly, but requests to /catalog/quick-select?id=1234 were 500'ing because once the action method was called as a result of controller.Execute(), the id parameter was null inside of the action method.
I do not know exactly why this is, but the behavior was as if MVC was not looking at the query string for values during model binding. So something about the ProcessRequest implementation in the accepted answer was screwing up the normal model binding process, or at least the query string value provider.
This is a deal breaker, so I took a look at default MVC IHttpHandler (yay open source!): http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#src/System.Web.Mvc/MvcHandler.cs
I will not pretend that I grok'ed it in its entirety, but clearly, it's doing ALOT more in its implementation of ProcessRequest than what is going on in the accepted answer.
So, if all we really need to do is strip dashes from our incoming route data so that MVC can find our controllers/actions, why do we need to implement a whole stinking IHttpHandler? We don't! Simply rip out the dashes in the GetHttpHandler method of DashedRouteHandler and pass the requestContext along to the out of the box MvcHandler so it can do its 252 lines of magic, and your route handler doesn't have to return a second rate IHttpHandler.
tl:dr; - Here's what I did:
public class DashedRouteHandler : IRouteHandler
{
public IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext)
{
requestContext.RouteData.Values["action"] = requestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action").Replace("-", "");
requestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"] = requestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("controller").Replace("-", "");
return new MvcHandler(requestContext);
}
}