VelocityNavigation.java

package org.apache.turbine.modules.navigations;


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import org.apache.turbine.annotation.TurbineService;
import org.apache.turbine.pipeline.PipelineData;
import org.apache.turbine.services.template.TemplateService;
import org.apache.turbine.services.velocity.VelocityService;
import org.apache.turbine.util.RunData;
import org.apache.velocity.context.Context;

/**
 * VelocityNavigation.  This screen relies on the VelocityPage
 * being set as the default page.  The doBuildTemplate() assumes the
 * user has put the template filename in the RunData parameter and set
 * it to the value of the template file to execute.  Specialized
 * Navigations screens should extend this class and override the
 * doBuildTemplate( data , context) method.
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:mbryson@mont.mindspring.com">Dave Bryson</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:hps@intermeta.de">Henning P. Schmiedehausen</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:peter@courcoux.biz">Peter Courcoux</a>
 * @version $Id$
 */
public class VelocityNavigation
        extends TemplateNavigation
{
    /** The prefix for lookup up navigation pages */
    private static final String prefix = PREFIX + "/";

    /** Injected service instance */
    @TurbineService
    private VelocityService velocity;

    /** Injected service instance */
    @TurbineService
    private TemplateService templateService;

    /**
     * Velocity Navigations extending this class should override this
     * method to perform any particular business logic and add
     * information to the context.
     *
     * @param pipelineData Turbine information.
     * @param context Context for web pages.
     * @throws Exception a generic exception.
     */
    protected void doBuildTemplate(PipelineData pipelineData,
                                   Context context)
            throws Exception
    {
        // empty
    }

    /**
     * Needs to be implemented to make TemplateNavigation like us.
     * The actual method that you should override is the one with the
     * context in the parameter list.
     *
     * @param pipelineData Turbine information.
     * @throws Exception a generic exception.
     */
    @Override
    protected void doBuildTemplate(PipelineData pipelineData)
            throws Exception
    {
        doBuildTemplate(pipelineData, velocity.getContext(pipelineData));
    }

    /**
     * This builds the Velocity template.
     *
     * @param pipelineData Turbine information.
     * @return the content of the navigation module
     * @throws Exception a generic exception.
     */
    @Override
    public String buildTemplate(PipelineData pipelineData)
            throws Exception
    {
        RunData data = pipelineData.getRunData();
        Context context = velocity.getContext(pipelineData);

        String navigationTemplate = data.getTemplateInfo().getNavigationTemplate();
        String templateName
                = templateService.getNavigationTemplateName(navigationTemplate);

        return velocity.handleRequest(context, prefix + templateName);
    }
}