Custom Navigation Portlet

[shannonsumner]

Hello all,

I'd love to create a custom Navigation Portlet (If anyone has - please send the info my way!).  I started copying the SiteMap portlet and tweaking it to my desires when I say a thread saying that UIPortletApplication portlets are really just for internal use.  I stumbled upon documentation for the Rest API which seems to have an api for listing pages within a site.  I can't seem to get it to work.  Do I have to turn something on?  I've tried this /rest/api/portal/classic/pages and /mop/portalsites/classic/pages.xml without luck.  Any help would be appreciated or if anyone else has experience creating a navigation portlet please let me know.

Thanks,

Shannon

[shannonsumner]

The REST API wasn't my answer

Here's the url I found to work:

http://localhost:8080/rest/private/managed-components/mop/portalsites/classic/pages

The Pages are not listed hierarchical - so I'd never be able to create a good list from them.

I'll keep looking

[nscavell]

Pages are not hierarchical, navigation nodes are. Try http://localhost:8080/rest/private/managed-components/mop/portalsites/classic/navigation. I also point you to GateIn Management Docs where you can view how the MOP management extension is exposed over rest.

[shannonsumner]

That looks like it might work - thank you Nick!

[shannonsumner]

As I'm coding this to use the REST API for the navigation nodes - I have to ask if there is a better way of getting the list of all pages in a hierarchical fashion.  Does anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks,

Shannon

[theute]

Like Nick said, pages are not hierarchical.

What is hierarchical is the navigation nodes (what you usually use for building a navigationPortlet), each navigation node points to a page, you can have multiple navigation nodes pointing to a same page.

From what you said in initial post looks like you found https://community.jboss.org/wiki/GateInRESTAPI and tried to use it, this is purely a spec open to discussion before being implemented, as of now there is no real *public* API, nick pointed you to a private REST API, you can also look at the existing navigation portlet if you wish. A while ago I also wrote this very short example (not tested on GateIn 3.2) https://github.com/theute/VerticalMenuPortlet which is using the private Java API.

[shannonsumner]

Thank you Thomas,

I will look at your short example and when I've completed everything I'll post what I came up with.

Thanks,

Shannon

[nscavell]

Unfortunately the example that Thomas points to will not work in 3.2.x since the internal/private navigation API changed. The problem is we don't have a public api for this yet, which is coming soon. Check our https://community.jboss.org/wiki/GateInSpecifications for more info around that. So for now you can either bite the bullet and wait for a proper public api (we plan for a rest one too) or use the internal NavigationService.java where you can find some examples of it's usuage internally but is subject to change.