Exposing content nodes as links in WLP 9.2

Question

Hi!
I am a portal 'newbie' with a POC on my hands, in which one goal is to index the content in a BEA Repository with my company's search technology. I have managed to expose the content node i'name' and 'path' properties in a simple web page, but I really need to turn these into searchable links. In other words, I want to traverse a path, extract all nodes, and expose them as links.
Again, my knowledge of CM is limiited here - just can't see how to proceed. Here's the working code I have so far. Any specific code tips would be greatly appreciated!
try {
Node node;     
ContentContext ctx=new ContentContext(request);
ISearchManager searchManager=ContentManagerFactory.getSearchManager();
String searchPath="/BEA Repository/BIPIFolder";
Search sch=new Search("contributor='weblogic'");
sch.setSearchPath(searchPath);
com.bea.content.paging.ISortableFilterablePagedList list=searchManager.search(ctx,sch);
com.bea.content.paging.IPagedListIterator iterator=list.iterator();
%>
<table>
<tr><td>Content Name</td><td>Content ID</td>
<%
while(iterator.hasNext()) {
     node=(Node)iterator.next();
     %>
     <tr>
     <td><b><%=node.getName()%></b></td>
          <td><i><%=node.getId()%></i></td>
     </tr>
     <%
     } catch(Exception e) {}
%>
Paul L.

Answer 1

Hi Paul,
I'm not sure exactly what you want to do when a node is clicked upon. Presuming you want to 'expore' that node and its children...
It sounds like you have some minimal rendering code in place, but you need the rendering code to respond to link clicks.
The easiest way to do this is to have your JSP/servlet accept parameters, and have your rendering code pass a request parameter when the link is clicked, indicating the desired node to render when a link is clicked upon. Your rendering code then needs to 'do the right thing'.
There are additional options for rendering nodes aside from that above-- you might want to take a peek at the display templates feature, for example. This feature allows each node type (objectClass) to have its own renderer. So for example, one could display a node of ObjectClass 'Car' by displaying the 'Car' template, and a node of ObjectClass 'Camera' by displaying the 'Camera' template.
It might also be helpful to take a peek at the content portlets sample on dev2dev codeshare, which performs some of this exploring. You can find it at
https://codesamples.projects.dev2dev.bea.com/servlets/Scarab?id=S284
-Steve