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Information

The RSF CRUD tool is generated by the Sakai App Builder and provides a simple CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) tool in RSF to get developers started writing Sakai apps quickly.

The CRUD tool

Consists of 2 screens (main and add/edit)
Allows a user to create items which are shared or private
Uses Sakai Authz permissions to control access to items
Uses the recommended Sakai application (tool) structure

Exercises

Add a page (part 1)

Summary page (shows statistics on the total entries, admin only)
Add additional page which is accessible from the list page
add new template
add new producer
add producer to requestContext
modify list template
modify list producer
- test at this point

Add a page (part 2)

make this actually work
modify logic api
modify logic test
modify logic impl
update the summary producer (don't use security by obscurity)
update list producer

Add a permission

New permission (view summary page)
Update the logic api
update the logic test
Update the logic impl

Add a field to the data model

Description
textarea
text in hbm file
update the model class file
- show hibernate tools?
update the logic test
update the dao test
update dao preload
update the AddItem template
update the AddItem producer
update the backing bean
- check with antranig about overriding the "null return" in RSF

Use announcement service

Create announcement when new visible items are added

use this code

Code Block

String channelRef = announcementService.channelReference(siteId, SiteService.MAIN_CONTAINER);
try {
	AnnouncementChannel ac = announcementService.getAnnouncementChannel(channelRef);
	ac.addAnnouncementMessage("New Item", false, null, "A new item was added called: title");
} catch (IdUnusedException e1) {
	log.error("failure adding message: ref=" + channelRef,e1);
} catch (PermissionException e1) {
	log.error("failure adding message: ref=" + channelRef,e1);
}

Update the logic api
update the logic test
Update the logic impl
Update the backing bean

Advanced exercise (if extra time)

Notes page (allows user to store or remove notes with any item)
update the item HBM (add collection, non-lazy)
update add item template
update add item producer
update the backing bean

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