Portal Context

Introduction

The gCube Portal Manager is a component all portlets need to use to get the context where they are running into. Moreover, passing an HttpServletRequest object to its methods, you can also:

• retrieve the list of Virtual Organizations available on a given portal;
• retrieve the configured senders of emails sent by the portal;
• retrieve the gateway of the portal.

Maven Dependency

In order to use it in your project, add the following dependency to the project's pom.xml file

<dependency>
	<groupId>org.gcube.common.portal</groupId>
	<artifactId>portal-manager</artifactId>
	<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Example

A new instance of the manager can be retrieved by invoking

PortalContext instance = PortalContext.getConfiguration();

A part this information, the new version allows to retrieve:

• The name of the gateway and its URL

// get the gateway name given the HttpServletRequest
String gatewayName = instance.getGatewayName(request);
 
// get the gateway url given the HttpServletRequest
String gatewayUrl = instance.getGatewayUrl(request);

• mail sender for the current site

// get the current site email's sender (used when notifications are sent, for example), given the HttpServletRequest 
String sender = instance.getSenderEmail(request);

• the name of the current infrastructure in which the client is running

// get the current infrastructure name
String infrastructureName = instance.getInfrastructureName();