Problem with Generators

anant_kr

Hi All,

I am using Teamsite 7.1 on linux server.
I am trying to populate a datum dynamically using Generator. The content XML is as follow:

[HTML]




5








[/HTML]

and the java method returns document:

[HTML]
public org.dom4j.Document someExternalCall(Hashtable params)
{
Document doc = Dom4jUtils.newDocument();
doc.addElement("Options");
Element base = doc.getRootElement();
for (int i=0; i<3; ++i)
{
Element option = base.addElement("Option");
option.addElement("Display").addText("Debug Item "+i);
option.addElement("Value").addText("debug_"+i);
}
return doc;

}
[/HTML]


But when I try to save the component or preview it, I get following error:

-------------------------------
Component preview failed.

Could not load component data XML into XMLDOM.

Datum ID=[category]
Must have least one option
--------------------------------

Please guide me how to use the generator.

Thanks

Stokes

Sounds like you're on the right track. Can you confirm that your Java method is being called? The part that looks suspect to me is the Hashtable signature of your method. As far as I know, that method has to have a single PropertyContext argument for the generator to call it.

If I'm right about that, I would be surprised if there's not a log message saying so. The UI is pretty bad about reporting generator errors properly, so you'll want to use the servletd log until you get it working.

Stokes.