Defining environment specific variables

onuraktas

Hi,

 

Are there any property files or any built-in key/value system that is readableby the layouts (*.xsl files) without any server restart operation?

 

Currently we define a new property in livesite_customer.jar's *.properties files, then we read them by Java and pass them to the page scope which lets layouts access those variables.

 

Unfortunately this approach requires full server restart, any solutions to this?

 

Thanks

 

 

Bowker

Yes, but you will potentially have caching issues.  Flushing your LSDS cache when the properties changes will be necessary.  There may be a surgical way to do this, but the big hammer works:

    http://<lsds-server>:<lsds-port-typically-1776>/iw/admin/JCS.jsp?action=clearAllRegions

 

From within an XSL file you can use the document() function to read an XML file.  

 

<xsl:variable name="PROPS" select="document('/path/to/file.xml')"/>

 

value of xxxx is <xsl:value-of select="$PROPS/pairs/pair[@name='xxxx']/>

 

WIth an xml file looking like this:

<pairs>

   <pair name="xxxx">my xxxx value here</pair>

   <pair name="yyyy">my yyyy value here</pair>

</pairs>