Best way to get a channel by path

I have a path (ex. /Sites/mysite/Home/subchannel/another/yetanother ) and I want to retrieve the channel, but currently I'm using findSiteByName, and getHomeChannel, and recursively getAllSubChannels and comparing names until I get the one I want. There's got to be a better way to do this. Any ideas?

Is there any Channel equivalent to Project.findProjectByPath(projectPath) ?

-Steve

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Dexter_Ellingson

In the class com.vignette.as.common.util.ChannelUtil, there's a methodgetChannelByPath.Or, if you're using DPM, use the getChannelByPath method oncom.vignette.ext.templating.util.ContentUtil.From: "eLink Entry: Vignette V7 and V8 Web Content Management" To: "eLink Recipient" Date: 10/05/2010 12:50 PMSubject: Best way to get a channel by path Best way to get a channel Posted by gears@umich.edu (Coffman, Steve) by path On 2010/10/05 13:45 I have a path (ex. /Sites/mysite/Home/subchannel/another/yetanother ) and I want to retrieve the channel, but currently I'm using findSiteByName, and getHomeChannel, and recursively getAllSubChannels and comparing names until I get the one I want. There's got to be a better way to do this. Any ideas? Is there any Channel equivalent to Project.findProjectByPath (projectPath) ? -Steve [To post a comment, use the normal reply function] Forum: Vignette V7 and V8 Web Content Management Livelink knowledge-wlweb01 Server:

Steve_Coffman

Thanks! I don't know if this is crazy, but I used that to make a find channel by Absolute Path method:

public static Channel findChannel(String absolutePath)
{
    String restOfPath= "";
    Site currentSite = null;
    Channel homeChannel = null;
    StringTokenizer pathTok = new StringTokenizer(absolutePath, "/");
    if(!pathTok.hasMoreTokens())
    {
        return(null);
    }
    String siteName = pathTok.nextToken();
    log.info("FindChannel sitename is:"+siteName);
    if(!pathTok.hasMoreTokens())
    {
    log.error("This path is invalid without stuff after the sitename");
    return(null);
    }
    try{
    currentSite = Site.findByName(siteName);
    String homeString = pathTok.nextToken();
    if(!"Home".equals(homeString))
    {
        log.error("This path is invalid without a Home Channel!");
        return(null);
    }
    homeChannel = currentSite.getHomeChannel();
    if(!pathTok.hasMoreTokens())
    {//the path is just /Site/Home
        return(homeChannel);
    }
    while(pathTok.hasMoreTokens())
    {
        restOfPath = restOfPath+"/"+pathTok.nextToken();
    }

    log.trace("Rest of path is:"+restOfPath);
    Channel newChannel = ChannelUtil.getChannelByPath(homeChannel, restOfPath);
    log.trace("FindChannel found channel:"+(newChannel != null));
    return(newChannel);
    }catch(Exception e)
    {
    log.error("Couldn't get the channel",e);
    return(null);
    }

}