[opencms-dev] Writing HTML directly into a vfs file

Tue Jul 1 00:02:01 CEST 2003

Ok.  If you're going to use a file of type "Page" then I suppose the
html you want to write is in one of the fields within the XML file in
bodies.  In that case, you need code like:

CmsObject cms = <insert mojo for getting the correct instance>;
CmsFile f = <get your file here>;
// Now the interesting bit...
// Get the control file for your page.  This defines the templates,
// body location, etc.
CmsXmlControlFile cf = new CmsXmlControlFile(f);
// This line gets the name of the file in /system/bodies/...
String contentFileName = cf.getElementTemplate("body");
// And open it
CmsFile contentFile = cms.readFile(contentFileName);

Ok, now you can read and write the raw XML in the content file using the
getContents() and setContents() methods in CmsFile to read and write
data to it.

When you're finished don't forget to call cms.writeFile(contentFile), or
else the changes will not be saved.

I've left out the import paths for each class, but they're in the
javadocs.

I hope this is of more help to you. :)

Dave

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 21:46, Matthias Schmidt wrote:
> Well, there's this file with type "page", say "/myFile.html".
> 
> The HTML content is in an XML file in /system/bodies/ with the same 
> name, so in this case "/system/bodies/myFile.html".
> 
> And I guess there must be some way to find the file in system/bodies/ 
> and then to insert the new HTML content.
> 
> It would look something like this (in my 'dream' ;)):
> 
> CmsFile xmlFile = CmsFile.getMeTheSystemBodiesFile();
> xmlFile.insertTheNewHtmlContent("<html>...</html>");
> 
> I looked all my way through the CmsObject and CmsFile and CmsResource.
> 
> Got any hints?
> 
> David Currie wrote:
> > Hi Matthias.
> > 
> > Can you be a little more specific about what you are trying to do?  I
> > have various fragments of code I've written that might help you, but I
> > need to know more about the context.  Are you going to do this from a
> > Content Definition?  A JSP?  A class called from a JSP?  etc.
> > 
> > Basically, you should look at the CmsResource.createResource() calls. 
> > You need to have a CmsResource object available, which is why I asked
> > those questions above.
> > 
> > By the way, /system/bodies/* is only used for files of type PAGE.  If
> > you just want to create a PLAIN file in the VFS, all you have to do is
> > include the file path and body in the arguments to createResource() and
> > you're done.
> > 
> > Hope this helps.
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> > On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 12:13, Matthias Schmidt wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi list,
> >>
> >>I have to write a Class that can directly write HTML code into a file in the
> >>vfs. I know that the file content of a file
> >>
> >>/myfile.html
> >>
> >>really is stored in a file
> >>
> >>/system/bodies/myfile.html
> >>
> >>inside an XML tag. I guess, there MUST be an OpenCms method that does
> >>exactly that for me, but I cannot find it. Has anybody got a hint for 
> >>me? The Code
> >>and HTML editors must be using it, but I still cannot find it.
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance!
> 
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