Trying to get URL document into the template document via custom HstComponent

[Johnny Hujol]

Hi,

I've been spinning around trying things and nothing gets me what I want.

The url: http://localhost:8080/site/content/premiumdoc

should get the document 'premiumdoc' into the 'document' variable defined in the template below.

I have a freemarker template

<#include "../include/imports.ftl">
Hello Simple Content page!!

<#if document??>
    <h1>${document.title?html}</h1>
    <div>
      <@hst.html hippohtml=document.content />
    </div>
<#else>
  <h1>No document found</h1>
</#if>

I have a component defined with this method

@Override
public void doBeforeRender(final HstRequest request, final HstResponse response) throws HstComponentException {
    super.doBeforeRender(request, response);
    final HstRequestContext ctx = request.getRequestContext();

    // Retrieve the document based on the URL
    HippoBean document =  ctx.getContentBean();

    if(document == null) {
        try {
            log.warn("Cannot find ***** : " + request.toString());
        } catch(Exception e) {
            log.error("", e);
        }
    } else {
        // Put the document on the request
        request.setAttribute("document", document);
    }
}

I don't understand how to configure the sitemap.

The documentation talks about the ${1}, etc I have no clue to what in the URL it refers to.

Also there a mention to para names and values for the hst:component again I feel like there is a link between the two that would make my HippoDocument form the HstComponent go magically into the template document variable so at the end I display the content of the document passed 'premiumdoc'.

What am I missing? I seem to be so close and yet I've been stuck the entire day on it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thx

Johnny

[William Borg Barthet]

Hi there,

your sitemap item is the missing link here.

A sitemap item has two main configuration elements:

componentconfigurationid - this points to the page configuration

relativecontentpath - this points to some content

The relative content path is relative to the site content root. This is something like /content/documents/myhippoproject. Here is an example if you want your sitemapitem to hit a particular document:

- hst:sitemap

 - foo (relativecontentpath = premiumdoc)

going to http://localhost:8080/site/foo will load the component hierarchy pointed to by the componentconfigurationid and the call to getContentBean() will load the content at /content/documents/myhippoproject/premiumdoc, assuming that the site content root is /content/documents/myhippoproject

With wildcard sitemap items, you can insert the dynamic part of the url into the relative content path:

- hst:sitemap

 - _any_ (relativecontentpath = ${1})

in this example, http://localhost:8080/site/abc will load  /content/documents/myhippoproject/abc and http://localhost:8080/site/abc/xyz will load  /content/documents/myhippoproject/abc/xyz. The part matched by the _any_ is what is replaces the ${1}.

Hope that helps!

William

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[Johnny Hujol]

William,

thx for the info.

I will check it out and get back as I have another issue which is deploying site and cms on a normal tomcat, but that's gonna be for another post :)

Keep u posted.

Johnny

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[Johnny Hujol]

Hi,

I tried the suggestion solution and I still have no luck with this.

Here is the output of the request:

Here is my sitemap as suggested:

Here is the content directory:

So what else am I missing?

This should work, shouldn't it?

Any help is appreciated as this is frustrating.

thx

Johnny

[Johnny Hujol]

I can see the document in the cms also Content section:

So the document exists and the path is correct.

I'm doing this in a custom component:

With the simplest freemarker template

To complete the information.

[Johnny Hujol]

Ok I found out what the issue was.

It is the type of the Component I extend from, instead of extending class EssentialsDocumentComponent, my custom component should extend EssentialsContentComponent and now it works :)