search-container-condensed-hook : A Liferay 6.2 Taglib Hook

The search-container-condensed-hook project is a Hook for the <liferay-ui:search-container> JavaServer Page Scriplet provided by liferay-ui Taglib in Liferay 6.2

Problem Statement

As part of the Liferay 6.1 to 6.2 upgrade the liferay-ui Taglib and the Scriplet's therewithin were ported to AlloyUI 2.0. In other words, although Liferay core underwent a minor version upgrade, the front end library used by Liferay UI's JSP Tablib underwent a major version upgrade from 1.0 to 2.0. This resulted in the incorporation of Twitter Bootstrap across all of liferay-ui's Scriplet's and caused noticeable variences across the followingly elements:

• A.Plugin.DialogIframe ( AUI Dialog )
• aui-modal ( AUI Modal )
• liferay-ui:search-container ( Search Container )

The code in this repository modifies the <liferay-ui:search-container> Scriplet in Liferay 6.2 to behave and present in a manner that more closely resembles that of 6.1, namely that it remove's unnecessary whitespacing thus fixing functional issues with data-intensive implementations.

Technical Considerations

This repository contains a lightweight Hook for the <liferay-ui:search-container> JavaServer Page Scriplet provided by the liferay-ui Taglib in Liferay 6.2 GA1 through GA6. The code follows all Liferay standards and patterns for 6.2 including:

• Ant build files with the same targets as those provided by Hooks developed and shifted with Liferay core.
• The utilization of Liferay Util Buffer as a defensive programming practice and in support of reusability. As recommended this Hook does not actually modify the source code of this Scriptlet but rather loads the page using the <liferay-util:buffer> tag and modifies the class assignments at runtime.
• Uses Liferay's recommended convention-over-configuration standards as they relate to package naming conventions.

This Hook's only change is that it applies, by default, the table-condensed class to the underline table element resulting from the implementation of the <liferay-ui:search-container> Scriplet.

Ant Build Instructions

To build this plugin run the following commands:

git clone --depth 1 git@github.com:cmaggiulli/search-container-condensed-hook.git ~/search-container-condensed-hook
cp -rp ~/search-container-condensed-hook ${plugins.sdk}/hook
ant compile
ant direct-deploy