How can I distribute portlet pages to different environments automatically?

Question

I'm a newbie developing a liferay 6.1 portlet. I want a static url and static content in the page where my portlet will be. What methods are recommended and available for distributing the portlet and page to different environments?

I want all environments to match as exactly as possible and I prefer to have everything automated, so I would like the page creation automatic too.

Answer 1

You could use the resources importer, a documentation for that can be found in the Liferay Developer Network: Creating plugins to share structures, templates and more.

Or you create a LAR file by exporting your pages - again described in the Liferay Developer Network: Export/Import.

You can import a LAR file from the UI or with the following code:

public void importPages() {
    // Define the settings for import - here some examples:
    final Map<String, String[]> params = new HashMap<>();
    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.PORTLET_USER_PREFERENCES, true);
    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.PORTLET_USER_PREFERENCES_ALL, true);
    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.PORTLET_CONFIGURATION, true);
    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.PORTLET_CONFIGURATION_ALL, true);
    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.PORTLET_ARCHIVED_SETUPS, true);
    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.PORTLET_ARCHIVED_SETUPS_ALL, true);
    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.PORTLET_DATA, true);
    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.PORTLET_DATA_ALL, true);
    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.PORTLET_SETUP, true);
        addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.PORTLET_SETUP_ALL, true);
    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.PORTLET_DATA_CONTROL_DEFAULT, true);

    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.THEME_REFERENCE, true);
    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.LAYOUT_SET_SETTINGS, true);
    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.LOGO, true);

    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.CATEGORIES, true);
    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.RATINGS, true);
    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.COMMENTS, true);

    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.DELETE_MISSING_LAYOUTS, true);
    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.DELETIONS, true);
    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.DELETE_PORTLET_DATA, true);

    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.USER_ID_STRATEGY, UserIdStrategy.CURRENT_USER_ID);
    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.DATA_STRATEGY, PortletDataHandlerKeys.DATA_STRATEGY_MIRROR);

    addParam(params, PortletDataHandlerKeys.PERMISSIONS, true);

    // Import with the current user into the current site (= group)
    ThemeDisplay themeDisplay = (ThemeDisplay) getPortletRequest().getAttribute(WebKeys.THEME_DISPLAY)
    LayoutLocalServiceUtil.importLayouts(themeDisplay.getUserId(), themeDisplay.getHostGroupId(), false, params, inputStreamOfMyLARFile);
}

// Helper method
private static void addParam(final Map<String, String[]> params, final String key, final Object value) {
    params.put(key, new String[] { value.toString() });
}