[Building Sakai] Excessive querying ofSAKAI_SITE_PAGE_PROPERTYtable in 2.6?

[Stephen Marquard]

Site Info seems to use is_home_page as a page property under some circumstances:

site-manage-tool/tool/src/java/org/sakaiproject/site/tool/SiteAction.java:                      if (page.getProperties().getProperty(SiteConstants.IS_HOME_PAGE) == null)

site-manage-tool/tool/src/java/org/sakaiproject/site/tool/SiteAction.java:                              page.getPropertiesEdit().addProperty(SiteConstants.IS_HOME_PAGE, Boolean.TRUE.toString());

site-manage-tool/tool/src/java/org/sakaiproject/site/tool/SiteAction.java:              if (page.getProperties().getProperty(SiteConstants.IS_HOME_PAGE) != null)

site-manage-util/util/src/java/org/sakaiproject/site/util/SiteConstants.java:   public static final String IS_HOME_PAGE = "is_home_page";

Maybe Zhen knows more about this.

Cheers
Stephen





Stephen Marquard, Learning Technologies Co-ordinator
Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town
http://www.cet.uct.ac.za
Email/IM/XMPP: stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za 
Phone: +27-21-650-5037 Cell: +27-83-500-5290 
 
>>> "Maurer, Christopher Wayne" <chmaurer at iupui.edu> 8/28/2009 4:28 PM >>>
But site properties are not the same as page properties.  We use some site
properties here for various things all the time.
What sorts of properties are used for pages?

Chris


On 8/28/09 10:24 AM, "Mark Norton" <markjnorton at earthlink.net> wrote:

> May, Megan Marie wrote:
>> > Would you be willing to share those situations you've used it?
>> >  
> Some time ago, I was asked by a client to make some rather extensive
> changes to the Sakai portal.  Most of these changes where layout and
> could be handle in CSS and Velocity templates.  A few changes required
> new flags and state data to be associated with a course site.  Custom
> tools were proposed to take advantage of this new data with the
> requirement that other, existing Sakai tools continue to work.  Site
> properties was the simplest (and most economical) way to implement this
> capability.
> 
> After many months of design, discussion and evaluation, the client
> decided not to use Sakai and went off on another path.  Had they chosen
> to stay, site properties would have been highly useful in implementing
> the design.
> 
> - Mark