cz.ues.platform.uwt.menu

Interface MenuItemDecorator

All Known Subinterfaces:

LocalizationDecorator

public interface MenuItemDecorator

This interface specifies the API, that must be implemented by MenuDecorators defined on menuItems.

Since:

UES7-00

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
DTOMenuItem	processMenuItem(DTOMenuItem menuItem, MenuProcessingContext ctx) Implement this method to provide your own dynamic logic and decorate the passed MenuItem.

Method Detail

processMenuItem

DTOMenuItem processMenuItem(DTOMenuItem menuItem,
MenuProcessingContext ctx)

Implement this method to provide your own dynamic logic and decorate the passed MenuItem. You can modify the MenuItem attributes or create new instance of MenuItem. The MenuItemDecorators are managed as chain, all decorators defined on ItemHierarchy could be processed, or you can override the parent. Typical code of decorator is:

 public DTOMenuItem processMenuItem(DTOMenuItem menuItem, MenuProcessingContext ctx) {
   DTOMenuItem mItem =ctx.proceedDecoratorChain(menuItem); //proceed parent in decorator chain
   if(mItem.getMainEntity().isActive()){  //make your logic
     mItem.setIcon("active.gif");
   }
   return mItem; 
 }
 

Parameters:

menuItem - The menu item that should be decorated.

ctx - The processing context informations, like Locale, DecoratorChain, etc.

Returns:

The decorated item.

Since:

UES7-00