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Lanbo
Lanbo

Reputation: 15702

Self-Made User Object, Wiring in the Templates

Since I have to work on an existing database, I've written my own User type for my App. It works fine, but I have trouble wiring in the templates for it.

The ProtoUser trait, which I used, provides a lot of the functionality, even an own sitemap method. There's nothing wrong with that one, but I need it to be Hidden.

I've then tried to just make my own Menu instances for them. They are exactly like the ones defined in the ProtoUser trait, but they simply don't work.

This is my current SiteMap. The full code is here here.

    val entries = List(
      Menu.i("Home") / "index" >> Hidden,
      Menu.i("Branches") / "branches",
      Menu.i("Ponies") / "ponies",
      Menu.i("Profile") / "profile" >> If(() => User.loggedIn_?, "You must be logged in"),

/*      Menu.i("Login") / "login" >> Hidden >> Template(() => User.wrapIt(User.login)) >> If(() => User.notLoggedIn_?, "Already logged in"),
        Menu.i("Logout") / "logout" >> Hidden >> Template(() => User.wrapIt(User.logout)) >> If(() => User.loggedIn_?, "You must be logged in"),
        Menu.i("Sign Up") / "signUp" >> Hidden  >> Template(() => User.wrapIt(User.signup)) >> If(() => User.notLoggedIn_?, "Already logged in"),*/

      Menu(Loc("Static", Link(List("static"), true, "/static/index"),
        "Static Content", Hidden))
    ) ::: User.sitemap

Maybe someone can help me on how to hide that User.sitemap? Or how it's supposed to be done, I am used to framework with explicit routing.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 172

Answers (1)

juanmirocks
juanmirocks

Reputation: 6219

Check the class ProtoUser of the the lift framework under net.liftweb.proto where the menu items are defined.

In your User class you can override those menu items, for instance:

override protected def editUserMenuLocParams: List[LocParam[Unit]] =
  Hidden :: //hides it but still reachable
  Template(() => wrapIt(editFunc.map(_()) openOr edit)) ::
  testLogginIn ::
  Nil

or to deactivate it outright:

override def editUserMenuLoc: Box[Menu] = Empty //not reachable

Then in your Boot write something like:

def sitemap() = SiteMap(
  Menu("Home") / "index" >> Hidden >> User.AddUserMenusAfter)

Upvotes: 1

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