org.broadleafcommerce.common.web.controller

Class BroadleafAbstractController

java.lang.Object

org.broadleafcommerce.common.web.controller.BroadleafAbstractController

Direct Known Subclasses:

AbstractAccountController, AbstractCartController, AbstractCatalogController, AbstractCheckoutController, AdminAbstractController, AdminLoginController, BroadleafCategoryController, BroadleafChangePasswordController, BroadleafLoginController, BroadleafManageCustomerAddressesController, BroadleafOrderConfirmationController, BroadleafPageController, BroadleafProductController, BroadleafRegisterController, BroadleafUpdateAccountController, PaymentGatewayAbstractController

public abstract class BroadleafAbstractController
extends Object

An abstract controller that provides convenience methods and resource declarations for its children Operations that are shared between all controllers belong here. To use composition rather than extension, implementors can utilize BroadleafControllerUtility.

Author:

apazzolini, bpolster

See Also:

BroadleafControllerUtility

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
BroadleafAbstractController()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected <T> void	addDeepLink(org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView model, DeepLinkService<T> service, T item)
protected String	getContextPath(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) Returns the current servlet context path.
protected boolean	isAjaxRequest(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) A helper method that returns whether or not the given request was invoked via an AJAX call
protected String	jsonResponse(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response, Map<?,?> responseMap) Typically, controller methods are set to return a String that points to the necessary template path.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BroadleafAbstractController

public BroadleafAbstractController()

Method Detail

isAjaxRequest

protected boolean isAjaxRequest(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)

A helper method that returns whether or not the given request was invoked via an AJAX call

Parameters:

request -

Returns:

- whether or not it was an AJAX request

getContextPath

protected String getContextPath(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)

Returns the current servlet context path. This will return a "/" if the application is deployed as root. If it's not deployed as root, it will return the context path BOTH a leading slash but without a trailing slash.

Parameters:

request -

Returns:

the context path

addDeepLink

protected <T> void addDeepLink(org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView model,
                   DeepLinkService<T> service,
                   T item)

jsonResponse

protected String jsonResponse(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response,
                  Map<?,?> responseMap)
                       throws org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerationException,
                              org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException,
                              IOException

Typically, controller methods are set to return a String that points to the necessary template path. However, there may be occasions where the error state for a controller action should instead return JSON instead of a fully rendered template. This convenience method will achieve that by setting the appropriate headers and serializing the given map.

Parameters:

response -

responseMap -

Throws:

org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerationException

org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException

IOException