Moved edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.view package to edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.web.templatemodels

webapp/web/view/ViewObject.java

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+/* $This file is distributed under the terms of the license in /doc/license.txt$ */
+
+package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.view;
+
+import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
+
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.freemarker.UrlBuilder;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.freemarker.UrlBuilder.Params;
+
+public abstract class ViewObject {
+
+    private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(ViewObject.class.getName());
+    
+    public static ServletContext context = null;
+
+    // Wrap UrlBuilder method so templates can call ${item.url}
+    public String getUrl(String path) {
+        return UrlBuilder.getUrl(path);
+    }
+
+    // Wrap UrlBuilder method so templates can call ${item.url}
+    public String getUrl(String path, Params params) {
+        return UrlBuilder.getUrl(path, params);
+    }
+
+    /*
+     * public static List<?> wrapList(List<?> list, Class cl) 
+     * throw error if cl not a child of ViewObject
+     * This block of code is going to be repeated a lot:
+            List<VClassGroup> groups = // code to get the data
+            List<VClassGroupView> vcgroups = new ArrayList<VClassGroupView>(groups.size());
+            Iterator<VClassGroup> i = groups.iterator();
+            while (i.hasNext()) {
+                vcgroups.add(new VClassGroupView(i.next()));
+            }
+            body.put("classGroups", vcgroups);
+    Can we generalize it to a generic method of ViewObject - wrapList() ? 
+    static method of ViewObject
+    Params: groups, VClassGroupView (the name of the class) - but must be a child of ViewObject
+    Return: List<viewObjectType>
+     */
+
+}