Upgrading to 9.2 | Control annotations xml file

Question

Hi,
i am trying to upgrade a small 8.1 workshop application to 9.2
The getControlAttribute of ControlContext has been depricated and replaced by getControlPropertySet of ControlBeanContext.
I need help with: what do i do with the old control annotations xml file which had all the prperty sets
and
how do i map the below mentioned code to work with the new api.
// Get the control properties from the control config file.
String gsc_input_queue = context.getControlAttribute("jc:aq-properties", "gscInputQueue");
String gsc_output_queue = context.getControlAttribute("jc:aq-properties", "gscOutQueue");
String gsc_publish_queue = context.getControlAttribute("jc:aq-properties", "gscPubQueue");
String aq_ora_datasource = context.getControlAttribute("jc:aq-properties", "OraDatasourceName");
String aq_db_user = context.getControlAttribute("jc:aq-properties", "OraDatabaseUser");
would appreciate any help in this matter.
Thanks,
RS.

Answer 1

Hi,
The annotations XML file is now replaced by standard Java5 annotation definitions. So your first step would be to create property sets for your controls, which are normally inner annotations on your control interface.
http://beehive.apache.org/docs/1.0.2/controls/programming.html#properties
You can then use the ControlBeanContext's getControlPropertyMap() method to access the property sets as applied to the control instance, and getMethodPropertySet() method if the annotations are applied to a method rather than the class. An example usage of this is something like:
PropertyMap map = context.getControlPropertyMap();
String location = (String)map.getProperty(new PropertyKey(IndexSettings.class, "location"));
Where IndexSettings is the class name of the property set definition.
Hope this helps.
-Chris