Knowing the name of the page....

Question

Hi everyone,
Is there a way to know in which page the current iView is being executed ?
If yes, can we get all the page attributes ?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi David,
yes, it is, but it's not easy.
First, <i>request.getNode().getNodeName()</i> delivers you the PCD path to the iView.
With the following method you can get the JNDI DirContext element of the PCD for a given path:
public static Object getPCDObject(IPortalComponentRequest req, String pcdURL) throws NamingException {
  IPcmObjectService pcdFactory =
(IPcmObjectService) PortalRuntime.getRuntimeResources().getService(IPcmObjectService.KEY);
  Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
  env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, IPcdContext.PCD_INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY);
  env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, req.getUser());
  IPcmObjectBuilder pcmSrv = pcdFactory.getInitialContext(env);
  try {
    Object o = pcmSrv.lookup(pcdURL);
    return o;
  } catch (NamingException e) {
  throw e;
From this, you can already access the attributes via JNDI (not very comfortable). Among others, for pages you will in fact be delivered with a IPcmContext object. Look at the methods of this, you will see that you have direct access to different attributes (like title and description) without going through JNDI.
Hope it helps
Detlev