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<P>I am exploring the jsp functionality in opencms5_beta to build a dynamic
directory listing (based on the flex-examples that came with the distribution).
The following code snippet returns the Description, Title and NavText elements
for each .html file in the directory /news/articles/</P></FONT></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>// Link substitutor to make sure static export
works</FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>com.opencms.util.LinkSubstitution subst = new
com.opencms.util.LinkSubstitution();</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>// Collect the objects required to access the
OpenCms VFS from the request</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>com.opencms.flex.cache.CmsFlexRequest req =
(com.opencms.flex.cache.CmsFlexRequest)request;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>com.opencms.file.CmsObject cms =
req.getCmsObject();</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>com.opencms.file.CmsFile file =
req.getCmsFile();</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>// Get the folder name</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>String foldername =
"/news/articles/";</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>// Get a list of all pages / subfolders in the
folder (sorted by NavPos property)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>java.util.ArrayList list =
CmsJspNavElement.getNavigationForFolder(cms, foldername);</FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>java.util.Iterator i =
list.iterator();</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>while (i.hasNext())</FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>{</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> CmsJspNavElement ne =
(CmsJspNavElement)i.next();</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> %><p></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<%=ne.getDescription() != null ? ne.getDescription() : ""
%><br></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<%=ne.getTitle() != null ? ne.getTitle() : "" %><br></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <a
href="<%=subst.getLinkSubstitution(cms,
ne.getResourceName())%>"><%=ne.getNavText() != null ? ne.getNavText()
: "" %
></a></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </p><%</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>}</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Arial
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<P> </P>
<P>What I also want to do is extract or use other Property values for a given
.html file, that are not defined by CmsJspNavElement.java . For example , I may
have created a Property called "Date", or I might want to select only certain
.html files by a value in the "Key Words" Property.</P>
<P>The temtation is to call the method getProperty() , but this method is not
defined in the CmsJspNavElement class (as far as I can determine it is only
available in CmsJspTagUser.java) .</P>
<P>Does anyone know of a way of accessing additional file Properties in the
above context without writing additional code in the appropriate classes?</P>
<P>Rod</P></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>