Plugins can now dynamically modify portlet-hbm.xml

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.1 EE SP4 (5.1.7), 5.2 EE SP1 (5.2.5)
• Fix Version/s: 5.1 EE SP5 (5.1.8), 5.2 EE SP2 (5.2.6)
• Component/s: Dev Tools > Plugins SDK
• Labels:
  • 5.2_release_notes
• Environment: All

Service builder automatically generates portlet-hbm.xml. The generated models use a specific model implementation. Sometimes plugin developers will want to subclass those implementations and use a custom model implementations instead. If a developer modifies portlet-hbm.xml and points their models to the new implementation, they lose their modifications next time service builder generates portlet-hbm.xml. This improvement is designed to address this issue.

To dynamically configure new classes, modify ext-spring.xml. For example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<beans
xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd"
>
<bean id="liferayHibernateSessionFactory" class="com.liferay.portal.spring.hibernate.PortletHibernateConfiguration">
<property name="dataSource" ref="liferayDataSource" />
<property name="hibernateConfigurationConverter" ref="liferayHibernateConfigurationConverter" />
</bean>
<bean id="liferayHibernateConfigurationConverter" class="com.liferay.portal.spring.hibernate.HibernateConfigurationConverter">
<property name="classNames">
<map key-type="java.lang.String" value-type="java.lang.String">
<entry key="com.sample.model.FooImpl" value="com.sample.model.MyFooImpl" />
</map>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>

This configuration will change com.sample.model.FooImpl in portlet-hbm.xml to com.sample.model.MyFooImpl.

Suppose you want to do something even less predictable, simply set:

<bean id="liferayHibernateConfigurationConverter" class="YOUROWNCLASSHERE">

The liferayHibernateConfigurationConverter bean must implement com.liferay.portal.kernel.util.Converter<String>