Adding a JSP to an Extension Point

[Sam Rohde]

Hello,

I'm new to OpenMRS development, and I was wondering if it was possible to add JSP to an HTML extension point. If that's not possible, maybe there's some way to parse the JSP into HTML so it can be passed into the extension point.

The extension point that I'm looking at is the dictionary search extension point at "org.openmrs.dictionary.index".

Thank you in advance,

Sam

[Wyclif Luyima]

Hi Sam,

I'm a little confused by what you are trying to achieve, you add an extension point to a JSP and not the other way round, so what exactly do you want to do?

Wyclif

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[Sam Rohde]

Hi Wycliff,

I want to add extra functionality to the concept search in the dictionary, such as accessing remote databases. To do that I decided to try extension points, but the only one in the dictionary index is the html extension, and writing html by itself without any jsp limits the functionality. Thus, I want to be able to make my own jsp and then parse include it into extension point.

I realize that this method is fairly convoluted, so I'm currently experimenting with overriding the whole jsp with my own, but at the same time I don't want to rewrite/copy the whole dictionary index code.

-Sam

[Jeremy Keiper]

I really wanted to do this too, at one point.  I ended up using a velocity rendering engine and a velocity template.

Extension class: https://github.com/AMPATH/openmrs-module-amrscustomization/blob/master/api/src/main/java/org/openmrs/module/amrscustomization/extension/html/FormsHotlist.java

Template: https://github.com/AMPATH/openmrs-module-amrscustomization/blob/master/api/src/main/resources/org/openmrs/module/amrscustomization/templates/formsHotlist.html

Jeremy Keiper
OpenMRS Core Developer
AMPATH / IU-Kenya Support

[Wyclif Luyima]

Probably you can try Jeremy's approach above or you could write a groovy template and evaluate it to generate the html to return from your extension.

Wyclif

[Sam Rohde]

Hey thanks for the replies Wycliff and Jeremy! You guys helped me a lot.  I'll use your approach Jeremy and mark this as complete.

Thanks again,

Sam