[opencms-dev] Question about getCacheDirectives()

[Michael Schmitt]

Hi all,

I have got a problem accessing parameters defined in an element definition
from inside the method getCacheDirectives().

In one of my Xml-files I have got something like
...
    <ELEMENTDEF name="empfehlungen">
        <CLASS>de.popfrontal.opencms.templates.MyTemplate</CLASS>
        <TEMPLATE>/system/modules/..../elements/mytemplate</TEMPLATE>
        <PARAMETER name="someparam">xxx</PARAMETER>
    </ELEMENTDEF>
...

The class looks like:

public class MyTemplate extends CmsXmlTemplate{
  ...
  public byte[] getContent(..., String elementName, Hashtable parameters,
...){
    ...
  }

  public CmsCacheDirectives getCacheDirectives(...){
   ....
  }
}


Now, I am trying to access the parameter in the definition.
When doing this inside the method getContent() I am able to read
the parameter by calling:

String param = (String)parameters.get(elementName + ".someparam");

When I try doing the same thing inside of getCacheDirectives() two problems
arise:
1. the passed elementName seems to be always NULL,
2. the parameters Hashtable does not even contain the element definitions
parameter.


Does anyone no a way of accessing the definition parameter from the method
getCacheDirectives() ???

best regards,
michael