How to retrieve static select cce widget options via api?

Hello,

I am writing a data migration code to use a different widget for a particular attribute. The ctd currently has an attribute that is a static select cce widget. I would like to get the option values of this widget to help construct a db query. I have thus far:

            ContentType jobPostCT = (ContentType) ContentType.findByName("job_post");
           AttributeDefinitionData add = jobPostCT.getData().getAttributeDefinition("tblJobPost-location");
           String widgetXML = add.getWidgetData();

I do not know what is in the widgetXML. How would I go about getting the WCMStaticSelectWidget from there so I can use the getSelectOptions() method to get the list of options?

Thank you,

Christine

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Mario_DAnna

Ciao Christine !

CCE Widgets have a constructor taking the xml widget representation as an argument. So the easiest is that you do

WCMSelectWidget widget = new WCMSelectWidget(widgetXML);

Once you have the widget instance you can access the options using the getSelectOptions() properties

Mario

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How to retrieve static select cce widget options via api?

Posted byhowellc@franklin.edu (Howell, Christine) On 02-06-2013 12:09

I do not know what is in the widgetXML. How would I go about getting the WCMStaticSelectWidget from there so I can use the getSelectOptions() method to get the list of options?

Thank you,

Ch! ristine< /p>

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Christine_Howell

Grazie, amico mio!

I was hoping that was the case but wasn't sure if it was the same XML string it was looking for.

Christine

Christine_Howell

Just an FYI for anyone else interested in this...

To get to the select options, there is one more 'hoop' to jump through - WCMSelectOptionElement. Here is a code sample to achieve what I was aiming to do:

ContentType myCT = (ContentType) ContentType.findByName("<ctd_xml_name>");
AttributeDefinitionData add = myCT.getData().getAttributeDefinition("<add_name>");
String widgetXML = add.getWidgetData();
WCMStaticSelectWidget ss = new WCMStaticSelectWidget(widgetXML);
Iterator ssIter = ss.getSelectOptions();
while(ssIter.hasNext()) {
WCMSelectOptionElement opt = (WCMSelectOptionElement) ssIter.next();
String optval = opt.getValue();
}