[Building Sakai] sites, pages, tools

[Stephen Marquard]

There is actually no definitive mapping from locations (as used in presence, i.e. online / locations) back to site, tool context, or anything else.

The best you can do is make some assumptions about the format of the location string, and infer what it might mean.

e.g. "abc-presence" is typically site presence, so the "abc" is a site id.

Chat uses a different format to represent chat rooms. Any tool X could make up its own presence location format.

Regards
Stephen

Stephen Marquard, Learning Technologies Co-ordinator
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>>> will trillich <will at serensoft.com> 2009/04/01 07:36 PM >>>
Thanks, Steve -- but we don't want "current tool" -- that code is
available all over the place! :)

We want the page and/or worksite of any specific, given, tool-id. As
in !admin > online > locations -- which worksite are these people in?


On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Steve Swinsburg
<s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi Will,
> You can get the current site that a user is using a tool in by:
> String siteId = toolManager.getCurrentPlacement().getContext();
> Once you have that site you can find a tool based on something like:
> ToolConfiguration toolConfig
> = siteService.getSite(siteId).getToolForCommonId(toolId);
> Where toolId is something like sakai.resources".
> From there you should be able to get the info you need?
>
> cheers,
> Steve
> ---
> Steve Swinsburg
> Portal Systems Developer
> Centre for e-Science
> Lancaster University
> Lancaster
> LA1 4YT
> email: s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk 
> phone: +44 (0) 1524 594870
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 1 Apr 2009, at 02:54, will trillich wrote:
>
> Okay -- this is probably elementary:
>
> Worksites have pages, and pages have tools, right?
>
> Given a tool ID (such as ea052aee-f422-41d5-ad70-97993a2251b6), how do
> we figure out which classes and methods to use, in order to find the
> worksite that that tool is attached to?
>
> Seems like the ToolManager or Tool class should have a field/method
> indicating the page it's on, which should in turn have a field/method
> indicating the worksite the page is on. There's not enough meat in the
> javadocs to tell what's going on (except on rare occasion, we stumble
> into a bit of information but it's seldom).
>
> For example, nightly2 javadocs show how lots of methods in the Tool
> class accept a string or return a string, but there's no description
> of what the string is expected to be, how it should be used, or what
> the output is expected to be. E.g. Tool.getHome() returns a mysterious
> string -- would that be a worksite name or id? page id? some other
> context?
>
> We were hoping for something like
> getSpecificTool(tool_id_string).getToolPage().getPageSite()...
>
> Pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
> --
> will trillich
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> heading." -- Lao Tzu
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