Package de.xima.fc.plugin.interfaces.form

Interface IPluginFormElementTemplateStatic

  • All Superinterfaces:
    IFCPlugin, INamedUiElement, INameProviding, IPluginFormElementTemplate, ITransferable, Serializable
    public interface IPluginFormElementTemplateStatic
extends IPluginFormElementTemplate
    Mixin that implements the methods of IPluginFormElementTemplate with defaults for static form element template plugins, when you have all templates stored as resources in the plugin's class path (i.e. src/main/resources folder).

    For the following example, let us assume all templates files are located at src/main/resources/data/templates, and your resource bundle with the translated names and descriptions is located at src/main/resources/properties/i18n_*.properties

    You then need implement getTemplateBasePath() and return data/templates, as well as getResourceBundlePath() and return properties/i18n

    Next, place JSON files with the template data and image files with the icon in src/main/resources/data/templates, e.g. 

     src/main/resources/data/templates/template1.json
 src/main/resources/data/templates/template1.png
 src/main/resources/data/templates/template2.json
 src/main/resources/data/templates/template2.jpeg
    Note : If you already have the form elements configured in the form designer, you can simply select the form element, press Ctrl+c to copy the form element, go to a text editor and press Ctrl+v to paste the JSON string with the form element into the editor. This is the JSON string that you need to put in the *.json files.

    Also, make sure you add the add translation for the following message keys in the resource bundle: 

     template1.name
 template1.desc
 template2.name
 template2.desc
    The image must have one of the extensions .png, .jpeg, or .svg. Optionally, you can also include a message key for template1.tags and template2.tags with a comma separated list of tags.

    Finally, you only need to return the template names and types in the getTemplateResources() method. If we assume that template1 is an XTextField and that template2 is an XFieldSet, that method should return 

     return Map.of("template1", "XTextField", "template2", "XFieldSet");
    Note on message keys: The name of the message key is derived from the template path as returned by getTemplateResources(), with all slashes replaced special dots and all other special characters (everything other than 0-9, a-z, A-Z, underscore, dash, or dot) replaced by underscores. For the template name, the suffix .name is added, for the template description .desc, for the template tags .tags. If provided, the prefix is added with a dot in between. So, for example, if the prefix is set to my.plugin, and the path is sub/folder/special&char, then e.g. the template name would be looked up with the key my.plugin.sub.folder.special_char

    A static template plugin for the above example might look like this: 

     import java.util.Map;

 import de.xima.fc.plugin.interfaces.form.IPluginFormElementTemplateStatic;

 public class DemoStaticTemplatePlugin implements IPluginFormElementTemplateStatic {
   @Override
   public String getName() {
     return "demo static template plugin";
   }

   @Override
   public String getResourceBundlePath() {
     return "properties/i18n";
   }

   @Override
   public String getTemplateBasePath() {
     return "data/templates";
   }

   @Override
   public Map<String, String> getTemplateResources() {
     return Map.of("template1", "XTextField", "template2", "XFieldSet");
   }
 }
    Since:
    8.0.1
    Author:
    XIMA MEDIA GmbH

    • Method Detail

      • getResourceBundlePath

        String getResourceBundlePath()
        Gets the base path to the resource bundle, e.g. com/example/i18n.
        Returns:
        Path to the resource bundle.

      • getResourceKeyPrefix

        default String getResourceKeyPrefix()
        Optional prefix for the messages keys for the name, descriptions and tags. The message key for each template is derived from the template path.
        Returns:
        Prefix for all message keys.

      • getTemplateBasePath

        String getTemplateBasePath()
        The base path that contains the templates and icons.
        Returns:
        Base for the class path that contains the templates and icons.

      • getTemplateResources

        Map<String,​String> getTemplateResources()
        Gets the list of paths with the available templates. Each path must be relative to the getTemplateBasePath(), and must not contain a file extension. The persist JSON must have the extension .json, the icon (if available), must have the extension .png, .jpeg, or .svg.
        Returns:
        A list of paths with the available templates.

      • isAppliesToContext

        default boolean isAppliesToContext​(IPluginFormElementTemplateParams params)
        Checks whether the templates should be offered for the given client, project, and form version.
        Parameters:
        params - Parameters with the client, project, and form version.
        Returns:
        Whether the templates are available in the given context.

      • getTemplateSetVersion

        default String getTemplateSetVersion()
        Gets the version of this set of form element templates. The version is used e.g. for caching. The default implementation returns the current timestamp, which effectively disabled caching.
        Returns:
        The version of this set of form element templates.