Global Application Name

[Bryan S]

This is a best practices question. I want to be able to set my Application Display Name one place and reference it whereever I want. application.applicationname seems completely wrong from an object oriented stand point yet I haven't been able to find any reference to a differenct technique anywhere and there isn't a model glue variable for it that I'm aware.

How do you handle this?

[Richard East]

I don't know if this is best practice, but in ColdSpring.xml I have a
siteDetails bean:

 <!-- Site Constants -->
<bean id="siteDetails" class="ModelGlue.Bean.CommonBeans.SimpleConfig">
<property name="config">
<!-- In Coldspring, a "map" represents a struct -->
        <map>
<entry key="favicon"><value>favicon.ico</value></entry>
<entry key="siteName"><value>MySite</value></entry>
<entry key="siteStyleSheet"><value>/css/v3/eurstart.css</value></entry>
etc...

In any of your views you can call it like:
#viewState.GetValue("siteDetails").siteNamer#

I have a similar xe bean in ColdSpring.xml for all my exit points.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Richard

On 11/28/06, Bryan S <bryansgroups@...> wrote:
> This is a best practices question. I want to be able to set my Application
> Display Name one place and reference it whereever I want.
> application.applicationname seems completely wrong from an object oriented
> stand point yet I haven't been able to find any reference to a differenct
> technique anywhere and there isn't a model glue variable for it that I'm
> aware.
>
> How do you handle this?
>

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[Richard East]

Sorry, I added a typo when calling the constant. I should have wrote this:
#viewState.GetValue("siteDetails").siteName#



On 11/28/06, Richard East <richard.east@...> wrote:

> I don't know if this is best practice, but in ColdSpring.xml I have a
> siteDetails bean:
>
>  <!-- Site Constants -->
> <bean id="siteDetails" class="ModelGlue.Bean.CommonBeans.SimpleConfig">
> <property name="config">
> <!-- In Coldspring, a "map" represents a struct -->
>        <map>
> <entry key="favicon"><value>favicon.ico</value></entry>
> <entry key="siteName"><value>MySite</value></entry>
> <entry key="siteStyleSheet"><value>/css/v3/eurstart.css</value></entry>
> etc...
>
> In any of your views you can call it like:
> #viewState.GetValue("siteDetails").siteNamer#
>
> I have a similar xe bean in ColdSpring.xml for all my exit points.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
>
> On 11/28/06, Bryan S <bryansgroups@...> wrote:
> > This is a best practices question. I want to be able to set my Application
> > Display Name one place and reference it whereever I want.
> > application.applicationname seems completely wrong from an object oriented
> > stand point yet I haven't been able to find any reference to a differenct
> > technique anywhere and there isn't a model glue variable for it that I'm
> > aware.
> >
> > How do you handle this?
> >
>
>
>

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[Bryan S]

On 11/28/06, Richard East <richard.east@...> wrote:

> I hope this helps.

Richard

It was very helpful, sort of. :-) It showed me that I was on the right path with what I was trying to do. Unfortunately it doesn't work.

The view says
"You have attempted to dereference a scalar variable of type class java.lang.String as a structure with members."

with this code.

in my view
<cfoutput>#viewState.GetValue("siteDetails").siteName#</cfoutput>

in coldspring.xml
    <bean id="siteDetails" class="ModelGlue.Bean.CommonBeans.SimpleConfig">
    <property name="config">
        <map>
            <entry key="favicon"><value> favicon.ico</value></entry>
            <entry key="siteName"><value>MySite</value></entry>
            <entry key="siteStyleSheet"><value>/css/v3/eurstart.css</value></entry>
        </map>
    </property>
    </bean>

The object isn't showing up when I dump this either.
<cfdump var="#viewstate.getAll()#" label="viewstate.getAll()">
<cfdump var="#viewcollection#" label="viewcollection">

[Richard East]

Hi Bryan,

I'm away from my office pc, so cannot quickly answer this. The bean
needs to be initiated in the main controller cfc you use. I can't give
you the exact code at the moment, but I will forward it as soon as I
can unless someone else on the list can beat me to it.

Sorry,

Richard



On 11/28/06, Bryan S <bryansgroups@...> wrote:

> On 11/28/06, Richard East <richard.east@...> wrote:
> > > I hope this helps.
>
>
> Richard
>
> It was very helpful, sort of. :-) It showed me that I was on the right path
> with what I was trying to do. Unfortunately it doesn't work.
>
> The view says
> "You have attempted to dereference a scalar variable of type class
> java.lang.String as a structure with members."
>
> with this code.
>
> in my view
> <cfoutput>#viewState.GetValue("siteDetails").siteName#</cfoutput>
>
> in coldspring.xml
>     <bean id="siteDetails"
> class="ModelGlue.Bean.CommonBeans.SimpleConfig">
>     <property name="config">
>         <map>
>             <entry key="favicon"><value> favicon.ico</value></entry>
>             <entry
> key="siteName"><value>MySite</value></entry>
>             <entry
> key="siteStyleSheet"><value>/css/v3/eurstart.css</value></entry>
>         </map>
>     </property>
>     </bean>
>
> The object isn't showing up when I dump this either.
> <cfdump var="#viewstate.getAll()#" label="viewstate.getAll()">
> <cfdump var="#viewcollection#" label="viewcollection">
>
>

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[Roy Martin]

Yeah I have something similar, I'm not very happy with it but it works for
now.

<bean id="site" class="beans.Site" singleton="false">
        <property name="name"><value>Site Name</value></property>
        <property name="DSN"><value>Datasource name</value></property>
        <property name="path"><value>Absolute path</value></property>
        <property name="clientURL"><value>url for the client
interface</value></property>
      <property name="adminURL"><value>url for the admin
interface</value></property>
</bean>

Then this can be referenced in your controllers manually or inject it
<cfscript>
        // Manual reference to site configuration
        var site = GetModelGlue().GetBean("site");
        // To access a property just call the method
        var siteName = site.getName();
        // send it back to the viewstate
        Arguments.event.setValue('siteName', siteName);
</cfscript>


Hopefully that's what you were looking for.

- Roy

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[Roy Martin]

Note: There was an error in that code that I didn't see before. Singleton
should be equal to true not false since there is no reason to have multiple
instances of this floating around.

<bean id="site" class="beans.Site" singleton="true">

- Roy

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[Richard East]

Bryan,

If you put this in the Controller.cfc, it should work:

<cffunction name="setSiteDetails" access="public" returnType="void"
hint="I get the constants of this site">
               <cfargument name="siteDetails" />
               <cfset variables._siteDetails = arguments.siteDetails />
       </cffunction>

And change the onQueueComplete function in the Controller.cfc:
<cffunction name="onQueueComplete" access="public" returnType="void"
output="false">
     <cfargument name="event" type="any" />
      <cfset arguments.event.setValue("siteDetails",
variables._sitedetails.getConfig()) />
</cffunction>

Regards,

Richard

On 11/28/06, Richard East <richard.east@...> wrote:

> Hi Bryan,
>
> I'm away from my office pc, so cannot quickly answer this. The bean
> needs to be initiated in the main controller cfc you use. I can't give
> you the exact code at the moment, but I will forward it as soon as I
> can unless someone else on the list can beat me to it.
>
> Sorry,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
> On 11/28/06, Bryan S <bryansgroups@...> wrote:
> > On 11/28/06, Richard East <richard.east@...> wrote:
> > > > I hope this helps.
> >
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > It was very helpful, sort of. :-) It showed me that I was on the right path
> > with what I was trying to do. Unfortunately it doesn't work.
> >
> > The view says
> > "You have attempted to dereference a scalar variable of type class
> > java.lang.String as a structure with members."
> >
> > with this code.
> >
> > in my view
> > <cfoutput>#viewState.GetValue("siteDetails").siteName#</cfoutput>
> >
> > in coldspring.xml
> >     <bean id="siteDetails"
> > class="ModelGlue.Bean.CommonBeans.SimpleConfig">
> >     <property name="config">
> >         <map>
> >             <entry key="favicon"><value> favicon.ico</value></entry>
> >             <entry
> > key="siteName"><value>MySite</value></entry>
> >             <entry
> > key="siteStyleSheet"><value>/css/v3/eurstart.css</value></entry>
> >         </map>
> >     </property>
> >     </bean>
> >
> > The object isn't showing up when I dump this either.
> > <cfdump var="#viewstate.getAll()#" label="viewstate.getAll()">
> > <cfdump var="#viewcollection#" label="viewcollection">
> >
> >
>
>
>

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[Bryan S]

O.K. Thanks. I am autowiring the new object in my Controller. I don't know if there is something additional I need to do for your code to work.

On 11/28/06, Richard East <richard.east@...> wrote:

Hi Bryan,

I'm away from my office pc, so cannot quickly answer this. The bean
needs to be initiated in the main controller cfc you use. I can't give
you the exact code at the moment, but I will forward it as soon as I
can unless someone else on the list can beat me to it.

Sorry,

Richard



On 11/28/06, Bryan S <bryansgroups@...> wrote:

> On 11/28/06, Richard East < richard.east@...> wrote:
> > > I hope this helps.
>
>
> Richard
>
> It was very helpful, sort of. :-) It showed me that I was on the right path
> with what I was trying to do. Unfortunately it doesn't work.
>
> The view says
> "You have attempted to dereference a scalar variable of type class
> java.lang.String as a structure with members."
>
> with this code.
>
> in my view
> <cfoutput>#viewState.GetValue("siteDetails").siteName#</cfoutput>
>
> in coldspring.xml
>     <bean id="siteDetails"
> class="ModelGlue.Bean.CommonBeans.SimpleConfig">
>     <property name="config">
>         <map>
>             <entry key="favicon"><value> favicon.ico</value></entry>
>             <entry
> key="siteName"><value>MySite</value></entry>
>             <entry
> key="siteStyleSheet"><value>/css/v3/eurstart.css</value></entry>
>         </map>
>     </property>
>     </bean>
>
> The object isn't showing up when I dump this either.
> <cfdump var="#viewstate.getAll()#" label="

[Bryan S]

Richard

I'm pretty close because I can do this in my Controller and get the correct value
<cfset test = getSiteDetails().getConfigSetting("siteName")>
<cfdump var="#test#" label="test"><cfabort>

So it must just be something little that is causing this to give the error in my view
<cfset appTitle = viewState.GetValue("siteDetails").siteName />

Bryan

On 11/28/06, Richard East <richard.east@...> wrote:

Hi Bryan,

I'm away from my office pc, so cannot quickly answer this. The bean
needs to be initiated in the main controller cfc you use. I can't give
you the exact code at the moment, but I will forward it as soon as I
can unless someone else on the list can beat me to it.

Sorry,

Richard

[Richard East]

Hi Bryan,

I'm not sure if Topica is sending emails in the right order, but...
This line from my previous email in the onQueueComplete in
Controller.cfc puts the constant into the view state:
<cfset arguments.event.setValue("siteDetails",
variables._sitedetails.getConfig()) />

Regards,

Richard


My last message:
Bryan,

If you put this in the Controller.cfc, it should work:

<cffunction name="setSiteDetails" access="public" returnType="void"
hint="I get the constants of this site">
              <cfargument name="siteDetails" />
              <cfset variables._siteDetails = arguments.siteDetails />
      </cffunction>

And change the onQueueComplete function in the Controller.cfc:
<cffunction name="onQueueComplete" access="public" returnType="void"
output="false">
    <cfargument name="event" type="any" />
     <cfset arguments.event.setValue("siteDetails",
variables._sitedetails.getConfig()) />
</cffunction>

Regards,

Richard

On 11/28/06, Richard East <richard.east@...> wrote:

> Bryan,
>
> If you put this in the Controller.cfc, it should work:
>
> <cffunction name="setSiteDetails" access="public" returnType="void"
> hint="I get the constants of this site">
>                <cfargument name="siteDetails" />
>                <cfset variables._siteDetails = arguments.siteDetails />
>        </cffunction>
>
> And change the onQueueComplete function in the Controller.cfc:
> <cffunction name="onQueueComplete" access="public" returnType="void"
> output="false">
>      <cfargument name="event" type="any" />
>       <cfset arguments.event.setValue("siteDetails",
> variables._sitedetails.getConfig()) />
> </cffunction>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
>
> On 11/28/06, Richard East <richard.east@...> wrote:
> > Hi Bryan,
> >
> > I'm away from my office pc, so cannot quickly answer this. The bean
> > needs to be initiated in the main controller cfc you use. I can't give
> > you the exact code at the moment, but I will forward it as soon as I
> > can unless someone else on the list can beat me to it.
> >
> > Sorry,
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11/28/06, Bryan S <bryansgroups@...> wrote:
> > > On 11/28/06, Richard East <richard.east@...> wrote:
> > > > > I hope this helps.
> > >
> > >
> > > Richard
> > >
> > > It was very helpful, sort of. :-) It showed me that I was on the right path
> > > with what I was trying to do. Unfortunately it doesn't work.
> > >
> > > The view says
> > > "You have attempted to dereference a scalar variable of type class
> > > java.lang.String as a structure with members."
> > >
> > > with this code.
> > >
> > > in my view
> > > <cfoutput>#viewState.GetValue("siteDetails").siteName#</cfoutput>
> > >
> > > in coldspring.xml
> > >     <bean id="siteDetails"
> > > class="ModelGlue.Bean.CommonBeans.SimpleConfig">
> > >     <property name="config">
> > >         <map>
> > >             <entry key="favicon"><value> favicon.ico</value></entry>
> > >             <entry
> > > key="siteName"><value>MySite</value></entry>
> > >             <entry
> > > key="siteStyleSheet"><value>/css/v3/eurstart.css</value></entry>
> > >         </map>
> > >     </property>
> > >     </bean>
> > >
> > > The object isn't showing up when I dump this either.
> > > <cfdump var="#viewstate.getAll()#" label="viewstate.getAll()">
> > > <cfdump var="#viewcollection#" label="viewcollection">
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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[Bryan S]

Thanks very much for your help! My final solution was an adaptation of what Richard did.

In my Coldspring.xml I have this...
    <bean id="ApplicationConfig" class="ModelGlue.Bean.CommonBeans.SimpleConfig ">
    <property name="config">
        <map>
            <entry key="shortDisplayName"><value>AppManager</value></entry>       
            <entry key="longDisplayName"><value>Application Manager</value></entry>
        </map>
    </property>
    </bean>

In my controller I have this
    <cffunction name="onQueueComplete" access="public" returnType="void" output="false">
        <cfargument name="event" type="any">
        <cfset arguments.event.setValue("applicationConfig",getApplicationConfig().getConfig()) />                
    </cffunction>

So that I can reference them in my view like this
<cfset appTitle = viewState.getValue("applicationConfig").longDisplayName />