How to show a web site

Hi Joao,

the better option (I think) is improve the WEBURL in order to use an editor with a link "go". Look at:
http://openxava.wikispaces.com/customizing_en#toc2

Though this case is very easy, you can create your editor including textEditor.jsp in your editor and after adding the link.

After it works for you, would be nice, if you would contribute back the improvement to OpenXava.

Cheers
Javi

Here is what I have done to have an editor for a web url that allows a link to be clicked to show the text's site (I am using openxava 3.0.3):

First) In <myproject>/xava/editors.xml I have added this at the beginning of the file to associate the stereotype “WEBURL” with this specific editor:

<editors>

    <editor name="WebURL" url="webUrlEditor.jsp">
        <for-stereotype stereotype="WEBURL"/>
    </editor>

….
</editors>

Second) I have created the editor “webUrlEditor.jsp” in folder <myproject>/web/editors/, where all the other editors are:

<%@ page import="org.openxava.model.meta.MetaProperty" %>
<%@ page import="org.openxava.util.Strings" %>
<%@ page import="org.openxava.util.Align" %>
<%@ page import="org.openxava.util.Labels" %>

<jsp:useBean id="style" class="org.openxava.web.style.Style" scope="request"/>

<%
String propertyKey = request.getParameter("propertyKey");
MetaProperty p = (MetaProperty) request.getAttribute(propertyKey);
String fvalue = (String) request.getAttribute(propertyKey + ".fvalue");
String align = p.isNumber()?"style='text-align:right'":"";
boolean editable="true".equals(request.getParameter("editable"));
String disabled=editable?"":"disabled";
String script = request.getParameter("script");
boolean label = org.openxava.util.XavaPreferences.getInstance().isReadOnlyAsLabel();
String smaxSize = request.getParameter("maxSize");
int maxSize = 0;
if (!org.openxava.util.Is.emptyString(smaxSize)) {
    maxSize = Integer.parseInt(smaxSize);
}
else {
    maxSize = org.openxava.util.XavaPreferences.getInstance().getMaxSizeForTextEditor();
}
int size = p.getSize() > maxSize?maxSize:p.getSize();
int maxLength = p.getSize();
if (p.isNumber()) {
    if (p.getScale() > 0) {
        int sizeIncrement = (size - 1) / 3 + 2; // The points/commas for thousands + point/comma for decimal + minus sign
        size += sizeIncrement;
        maxLength += sizeIncrement;
    }
    String integer = p.getScale() == 0?"true":"false";
    script = script + " onkeypress='return validateNumeric(event, " + p.getSize() + ", " + integer + ")' ";
}   

boolean fillWithZeros = "true".equals(request.getParameter("fillWithZeros"));
if (fillWithZeros && fvalue.length() > 0) {   
    fvalue = Strings.fix(fvalue, size, Align.RIGHT, '0');
}

if (editable || !label) {
%>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td>
<input name="<%=propertyKey%>" class=<%=style.getEditor()%>
    type="text"
    title="<%=p.getDescription(request)%>"
    <%=align%>
    maxlength="<%=maxLength%>"
    size="<%=size%>"
    value="<%=Strings.change(fvalue, "\"", "&quot;")%>"
    <%=disabled%>
    <%=script%>
/><td>
<a href="<%=fvalue%>" target="_blank" ><img type="image" title="<%=org.openxava.util.XavaResources.getString("gotourl", org.openxava.util.Locales.getCurrent())%>" border="0" src="images/view.gif" alt="<%=Labels.get("GO", org.openxava.util.Locales.getCurrent())%>"></img></a>
</table>
<%
} else {
%>
<a href="<%=fvalue%>" ><%=fvalue%></a>&nbsp;
<%
}
%>
<% if (!editable) { %>
    <input type="hidden" name="<%=propertyKey%>" value="<%=fvalue%>">
<% } %>           

Third) To localize the editor to Portuguese I have created an entry in <myproject>-labels_pt.properties:
….
GO=IR
….

Fourth) to localize the editor to Portuguese I have created an entry in <myproject>-messages_pt.properties:

gotourl=Ir para sitio
mailto=enviar mail

That's all. After this I have done something alike for the stereotype  EMAIL.

Here is the code for mailEditor.jsp:

<%@ page import="org.openxava.model.meta.MetaProperty" %>
<%@ page import="org.openxava.util.Strings" %>
<%@ page import="org.openxava.util.Align" %>
<%@ page import="org.openxava.util.Labels" %>

<jsp:useBean id="style" class="org.openxava.web.style.Style" scope="request"/>

<%
String propertyKey = request.getParameter("propertyKey");
MetaProperty p = (MetaProperty) request.getAttribute(propertyKey);
String fvalue = (String) request.getAttribute(propertyKey + ".fvalue");
String align = p.isNumber()?"style='text-align:right'":"";
boolean editable="true".equals(request.getParameter("editable"));
String disabled=editable?"":"disabled";
String script = request.getParameter("script");
boolean label = org.openxava.util.XavaPreferences.getInstance().isReadOnlyAsLabel();
String smaxSize = request.getParameter("maxSize");
int maxSize = 0;
if (!org.openxava.util.Is.emptyString(smaxSize)) {
    maxSize = Integer.parseInt(smaxSize);
}
else {
    maxSize = org.openxava.util.XavaPreferences.getInstance().getMaxSizeForTextEditor();
}
int size = p.getSize() > maxSize?maxSize:p.getSize();
int maxLength = p.getSize();
if (p.isNumber()) {
    if (p.getScale() > 0) {
        int sizeIncrement = (size - 1) / 3 + 2; // The points/commas for thousands + point/comma for decimal + minus sign
        size += sizeIncrement;
        maxLength += sizeIncrement;
    }
    String integer = p.getScale() == 0?"true":"false";
    script = script + " onkeypress='return validateNumeric(event, " + p.getSize() + ", " + integer + ")' ";
}   

boolean fillWithZeros = "true".equals(request.getParameter("fillWithZeros"));
if (fillWithZeros && fvalue.length() > 0) {   
    fvalue = Strings.fix(fvalue, size, Align.RIGHT, '0');
}

if (editable || !label) {
%>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td>
<input name="<%=propertyKey%>" class=<%=style.getEditor()%>
    type="text"
    title="<%=p.getDescription(request)%>"
    <%=align%>
    maxlength="<%=maxLength%>"
    size="<%=size%>"
    value="<%=Strings.change(fvalue, "\"", "&quot;")%>"
    <%=disabled%>
    <%=script%>
/><td>
<a href="mailto:<%=fvalue%>" target="_blank" ><img type="image" title="<%=org.openxava.util.XavaResources.getString("mailto", org.openxava.util.Locales.getCurrent())%>" border="0" src="images/view.gif" alt="<%=Labels.get("GO", org.openxava.util.Locales.getCurrent())%>"></img></a>
</table>
<%
} else {
%>
<a href="<%=fvalue%>" ><%=fvalue%></a>&nbsp;
<%
}
%>
<% if (!editable) { %>
    <input type="hidden" name="<%=propertyKey%>" value="<%=fvalue%>">
<% } %>           

Hi Javi, thanks for your tip.

webUrlEditor.jsp:

<%@include file="textEditor.jsp"%>

<%@ page import="org.openxava.util.Labels" %>

<a href="<%=fvalue%>" target="_blank" ><img type="image" title="<%=org.openxava.util.XavaResources.getString("gotourl", org.openxava.util.Locales.getCurrent())%>" border="0" src="images/view.gif" alt="<%=Labels.get("GO", org.openxava.util.Locales.getCurrent())%>"></img></a>

mailEditor.jsp:

<%@include file="textEditor.jsp" %>

<%@ page import="org.openxava.util.Labels" %>

<a href="mailto:<%=fvalue%>" target="_blank" ><img type="image" title="<%=org.openxava.util.XavaResources.getString("mailto", org.openxava.util.Locales.getCurrent())%>" border="0" src="images/view.gif" alt="<%=Labels.get("GO", org.openxava.util.Locales.getCurrent())%>"></img></a>

Cheers

Joao