The properties Module

The properties module provides a service (InputModule) to configure publications using properties. The idea is to have a fallback of properties.

<properties>
  <property name="pubs.default.author" value="Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra"/>
</properties>

1. Publication (lazy loaded in loadPublicationPropertiesIfNotDone())
2. Lenya local
3. Modules (all modules, not only the ones referenced in the publication)
4. Lenya

1. {pubDir}/lenya.properties.xml
2. $LENYA_HOME/src/webapp/local.lenya.properties.xml
3. {module}/lenya.properties.xml
4. $LENYA_HOME/src/webapp/lenya.properties.xml

To activate your properties you need to save the above sample file in one of the above locations.

1. Publication - on a publication level you are able to implement all properties and override all possible default ones.
2. Lenya local - use this for global properties for all your lenya based pubs
3. Modules - modules can use properties to allow user to override module specific properties.
4. Lenya - global default properties

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Since the properties module is a cocoon input module, you can use it as any other input module.

...
<map:transform src="cocoon:/getDoctypeXSLT/{4}">
  <map:parameter name="author" value="{properties:pubs.default.author}"/>
  ...
</map:transform>
        

java

In your custom cocoon components use like follows.

 InputModule inputModule = null;
 ServiceSelector selector = null;
 String propKey = "pubs.default.author";
   try {
     selector = (ServiceSelector) m_manager.lookup(InputModule.ROLE + "Selector");
     inputModule = (InputModule) selector.select("properties");   
     String propValue = (String) inputModule.getAttribute(propKey, null,
                    objectModel)
...