de.xima.fc.plugin.interfaces.servlet

Interface IPluginServletAction

All Superinterfaces:

IFCPlugin, INamedUiElement, INameProviding, ITransferable, Serializable

public interface IPluginServletAction
extends IFCPlugin

Interface for plugins servlet action plugins. A servlet action plugin is called in response to a HTTP request to a certain URL. The plugin may perform any arbitrary logic and send a response to the HTTP request. It can be used, for example, to serve resources (statically or dynamically) or to trigger certain actions within the system from the outside.

Assuming FORMCYCLE runs on the URL https://example.com/formcycle, the URL to a servlet plugin looks as follows:

 http://example.com/formcycle/plugin?name=PLUGIN-NAME&client-id=CLIENT_ID
 

The given PLUGIN-NAME determines which servlet action is executed. The PLUGIN-NAME must be the IFCPlugin.getName() of the plugin. The CLIENT_ID must be the ID of the client where the plugin was installed. It must be omitted in case the plugin was installed as a system plugin. When no servlet plugin with the given name exists, a general error response is returned.

Author:

XIMA MEDIA GmbH

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface de.xima.fc.plugin.interfaces.IFCPlugin

CONFIG_FILENAME

Fields inherited from interface de.xima.fc.entities.interfaces.INameProviding

ATTR_NAME, COL_NAME

Fields inherited from interface de.xima.fc.interfaces.INamedUiElement

ATTR_DISPLAY_NAME

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
IPluginServletActionRetVal	execute(IPluginServletActionParams params) The main method of this plugin.

Methods inherited from interface de.xima.fc.plugin.interfaces.IFCPlugin

getDescription, getDescription, getDisplayName, getName, initialize, initPlugin, install, shutdown, shutdown, uninstall

Method Detail

execute

IPluginServletActionRetVal execute(IPluginServletActionParams params)
                            throws FCPluginException

The main method of this plugin.

When any exception other than FCPluginException is thrown, a generic HTML error page is returned to the client.

Parameters:

params - The parameters this plugin may make use of. Contains for example the URL parameters, the data of the HttpSession or the current Benutzer.

Returns:

The HTTP response code and the data to be sent as the response.

Throws:

FCPluginException - May be thrown when this plugin cannot handle the request. When this exception is thrown, a 404 HTTP response is returned to the client.