Add content from webservice to ProductDetails Page

[superbear]

Hey everybody,

I'm new to Konakart. I want to add some content to the product details page, with i retrieved via a webservice.

I found out how to customize the frontend template (ProductDetailsBody.jsp) to add some static content.
Now I want to add dynamic content, form my webservice.

I tought I could add my logic to ShowProductDetailsAction, but I do not know how to access the content i got (product list) from the frontend template.

I think this is more a struts question than a konakart one. Hopefully someone can help me, anyway.

Regards

[superbear]

Today I had a new idea, how to fix my problem.

Is it possible to add some custom methods, to the Product Manager?
If it is possible, how do I implement a custom product Manager? I only know how to implement a custom AppEngine.

Looking forward to some help

[kate]

Take a look at the Programming Guide section of the KonaKart User Guide.

It explains quite a few different techniques.

You may wish to specialise a manager and plug that in...  see "Pluggable Managers"

[superbear]

Thank you for this hint!

That was indeed what I was searching for!

[superbear]

But it seems like only professional partners can customize these "Pluggable Managers". I do not have any source code for the manager classes, to extend from.

[ryan]

You don't need the source code to extend the managers. The javadoc contains the methods of each manager.

[superbear]

Hey ryan,

that sounds good. I didn't know that.

Then I hope this is my last question: Whats the difference between the

Code Select Expand

com.konakart.al and

Code Select Expand

com.konakart.bl packages? Which one contains, what? I didn't find an explantation for these in the documentation!

[ryan]

http://www.konakart.com/forum/index.php/topic,1582.msg6241.html#msg6241

[superbear]

thanks! forgot to search the forum! my fault!

[superbear]

As I'm extending the ProductMgr class I got an error, that the constructor

Code Select Expand

public ProductMgr(KKEngIf eng) throws java.lang.Exception

is undefined. So I added the constructor and delegated the call to the super class. But I get a error, that the super class does not have this constructor. The JavaDoc of ProductMgr tells me, that it should have this public constructor. Is the JavaDoc wrong?

[superbear]

Again my fault. There is a com.konakart.al.ProductMgr and a com.konakart.bl.ProductMgr.
By mistake I extended the al version instead of the bl version.

very confusing

so the bl version is the right one!

[superbear]

for everybody interested the post continues with this one:
http://www.konakart.com/forum/index.php/topic,1632.0.html