Wed, 01/06/2010 - 14:38
Hi,
For custom mashlets like the one you are developing, you must include the Inputs in the Mashlet's markup. Please take a look at the samples - Sample.YUI.LocalSearch and Sample.YahooMap - that are provided as part of the Presto download. Look at <presto-install>/server/apache-tomcat-5.5.20/webapps/mashlet/Sample.YUI.LocalSearch/src.js and Sample.YahooMap/src.js.
Hope this helps.
Kishore
I am a relative newbie at Presto and mashlets. I am trying to create a custom mashlet modeled after MashletCom1 except that I want the mashlet to allow user input like mashlets created in wires. I created the code below in the mashlet.json file,
"PeopleSearch": {
"type": "PeopleSearch",
"title":"This a test for PeopleSeardch",
"description": "",
"properties": {"FirstName": "Al*",
"LastName": "Smith"
},
"properties-meta": {
"FirstName": {
"type": "STRING",
"description": "First Name"
},
"LastName": {
"type": "STRING",
"description": "Last Name"
}
},
"resources": {
"libs": {
"presto_ext": "true"
},
"js": [{ "script": "main.js"}]
}
},
In the main.js file I have coded:
PeopleSearch = Class.create(Ema.BoxMashlet, {
function() {var FirstName = this.getPreference("FirstName");
var LastName = this.getPreference("LastName");
When I go to the mashlet maker and do CreateFromType, it builds the mashlet, but does not birng in the default values from the json file. I can publish the mashlet, but at run time it does not give me the input parameters in the arguments where I could enter values for them.
How do I code a custom mashlet so that it allows user input?