How to tell Development vs. Testing vs. Production

I'm building a component that needs to get data from a remote service. I'll be using xsl:variable name="remoteData" select="document(...)" type of access to obtain the data.

The URL I need to pass into document() varies depending upon which environment presenting the page. We have multiple "testing" environments (development, system, user-acceptance and production).

Is there a way to define parameters or something within LiveSite that can be picked up by components (either directly or through an External)?

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Rick Poulin

Best I can suggest is using (in an external) java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName() and then having a configuration of some type map those host names to the environment-specific values.

Bowker

Once again - good idea.

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package com.xxxx.livesite.external;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;//Uncomment to enable logging
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;//Uncomment to enable logging
import org.dom4j.Document;
import org.dom4j.Element;
import com.interwoven.livesite.dom4j.Dom4jUtils;
import java.util.*;
import com.interwoven.livesite.runtime.RequestContext;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

public class Environment {

public Document getEnvironment(com.interwoven.livesite.runtime.RequestContext context) {
org.dom4j.Document doc = Dom4jUtils.newDocument();

Element server = doc.addElement("server");
server.addElement("mode").setText(context.getMode().toString());
try {
server.addElement("host").setText(java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName());
} catch (java.net.UnknownHostException e) {
server.addElement("host").setText("Error obtaining host name - " + e.getMessage());
}
return doc;
}
}
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and in the Content XML portion of the template
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results in:
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PREVIEW
MYSERVERNAME

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tec_iwov

take a look at RequestContext interface.

There's two functions isPreview and isRuntime.

you still might have to check host name or something since i would expect testing in a runtime system as well.

and of cource would have to do this within the external

Bowker

You may use the isXxxxx() or if you would like a string representation you can use the getMode() method.

context.getMode().toString()

Will return a String representation of:
RUNTIME
EDIT
PREVIEW
GENERATE_HTML
EMBEDDED