org.apache.wiki.plugin

Class IfPlugin

java.lang.Object

org.apache.wiki.plugin.IfPlugin

All Implemented Interfaces:

WikiPlugin

public class IfPlugin
extends Object
implements WikiPlugin

The IfPlugin allows parts of a WikiPage to be executed conditionally, and is intended as a flexible way of customizing a page depending on certain conditions. Do not use it as a security mechanism to conditionally hide content from users (use page ACLs for that). You can also use shorthand "If" to run it. Parameters:

• group - A "|" -separated list of group names.
• user - A "|" -separated list of user names.
• ip - A "|" -separated list of ip addresses.
• var - A wiki variable
• page - A page name
• contains - A Perl5 regexp pattern
• is - A Perl5 regexp pattern
• exists - "true" or "false".

If any of them match, the body of the plugin is executed. You can negate the content by prefixing it with a "!". For example, to greet all admins, put the following in your LeftMenu:

  [{If group='Admin'

  Hello, Admin, and your mighty powers!}]
  

In order to send a message to everybody except Jack use

  [{If user='!Jack'

  %%warning
  Jack's surprise birthday party at eleven!
  %%}]
  

Note that you can't use "!Jack|!Jill", because for Jack, !Jill matches; and for Jill, !Jack matches. These are not regular expressions (though they might become so in the future).

To check for page content, use

  [{If page='TestPage' contains='xyzzy'

  Page contains the text "xyzzy"}]
  

The difference between "contains" and "is" is that "is" is always an exact match, whereas "contains" just checks if a pattern is available.

To check for page existence, use

  [{If page='TestPage' exists='true'

  Page "TestPage" exists.}]
  

With the same mechanism, it's also possible to test for the existence of a variable - just use "var" instead of "page".

Another caveat is that the plugin body content is not counted towards ReferenceManager links. So any links do not appear on any reference lists. Depending on your position, this may be a good or a bad thing.

Calling Externally

The functional, decision-making part of this plugin may be called from other code (e.g., other plugins) since it is available as a static method ifInclude(WikiContext,Map). Note that the plugin body may contain references to other plugins.

Since:

2.6

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static String	PARAM_CONTAINS The parameter name for setting the contents of the page to check.
static String	PARAM_EXISTS The parameter name for checking whether a page/var exists.
static String	PARAM_GROUP The parameter name for setting the group to check.
static String	PARAM_IP The parameter name for setting the ip address to check.
static String	PARAM_IS The parameter name for setting the exact content to check.
static String	PARAM_PAGE The parameter name for setting the page name to check.
static String	PARAM_USER The parameter name for setting the user id to check.
static String	PARAM_VAR The parameter name for setting the variable name to check.

Fields inherited from interface org.apache.wiki.api.plugin.WikiPlugin

CORE_PLUGINS_RESOURCEBUNDLE

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
IfPlugin()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	execute(WikiContext context, Map<String,String> params) This is the main entry point for any plugin.
static boolean	ifInclude(WikiContext context, Map<String,String> params) Returns a boolean result based on processing the WikiContext and parameter Map as according to the rules stated in the IfPlugin documentation.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

PARAM_GROUP

public static final String PARAM_GROUP

The parameter name for setting the group to check. Value is "group".

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PARAM_USER

public static final String PARAM_USER

The parameter name for setting the user id to check. Value is "user".

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PARAM_IP

public static final String PARAM_IP

The parameter name for setting the ip address to check. Value is "ip".

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PARAM_PAGE

public static final String PARAM_PAGE

The parameter name for setting the page name to check. Value is "page".

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PARAM_CONTAINS

public static final String PARAM_CONTAINS

The parameter name for setting the contents of the page to check. Value is "contains".

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PARAM_VAR

public static final String PARAM_VAR

The parameter name for setting the variable name to check. Value is "var".

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PARAM_IS

public static final String PARAM_IS

The parameter name for setting the exact content to check. Value is "is".

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PARAM_EXISTS

public static final String PARAM_EXISTS

The parameter name for checking whether a page/var exists. Value is "exists".

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Constructor Detail

IfPlugin

public IfPlugin()

Method Detail

execute

public String execute(WikiContext context,
                      Map<String,String> params)
               throws PluginException

This is the main entry point for any plugin. The parameters are parsed, and a special parameter called "_body" signifies the name of the plugin body, i.e. the part of the plugin that is not a parameter of the form "key=value". This has been separated using an empty line.

Note that it is preferred that the plugin returns XHTML-compliant HTML (i.e. close all tags, use <br /> instead of <br>, etc.

Specified by:

execute in interface WikiPlugin

Parameters:

context - The current WikiContext.

params - A Map which contains key-value pairs. Any parameter that the user has specified on the wiki page will contain String-String parameters, but it is possible that at some future date, JSPWiki will give you other things that are not Strings.

Returns:

HTML, ready to be included into the rendered page.

Throws:

PluginException - In case anything goes wrong.

ifInclude

public static boolean ifInclude(WikiContext context,
                                Map<String,String> params)
                         throws PluginException

Returns a boolean result based on processing the WikiContext and parameter Map as according to the rules stated in the IfPlugin documentation. As a static method this may be called by other classes.

Parameters:

context - The current WikiContext.

params - The parameter Map which contains key-value pairs.

Returns:

True, if the condition holds.

Throws:

PluginException - If something goes wrong