Re: [Bodington-developers] Plugin interface

[Matthew B. <mat...@ou...>]

Alistair Young wrote:
> Bodders, I've been delurked, damn, to ask opinions.
> 
> We have a requirement for My Modules, which is specific to us so we don't
> want to pollute Facility. However, a template must call facility to get it
> to write stuff to the screen.

How about using the existing Bodington facility for doing this that is
used for the Recycle building? So you:

Subclass Facility - Create
  public class UhiFacility extends Facility .... adding the Uhi specific
functionality.

For the changes to the template create a new template style
/tomcatadd/webapps/bodington/templates/style_1/ and copy and change any
templates that need to be different for the UHI code.

Edit the bodington-defaults and replace references to Facility with
UhiFacility.

Change the database so that the style of the root resource is 1 so that
templates are first loaded from the UHI template folder (style_1).

The only problem that I can see at the moment is that for Facility
subclasses they still extend the standard facility so things like
questionnaire facility wouldn't have the extra UHI functionality.

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