Description

Allows you to execute plugins per name or the set of plugins for a given flavor from your templates.

Availabilty

Available as of blojsom 2.24.

Installation and Setup

In your global /WEB-INF/plugin.properties file, add the following line:

plugin-helper=org.blojsom.plugin.helper.PluginHelperPlugin

You may then add "plugin-helper" to one of the flavor-based plugin chains. These plugin chains can be found in the individual blog's plugin.properties file. For example:

html.blojsom-plugin-chain=..., plugin-helper

Usage and URL Parameters

You can then use the following plugin helper methods in your template:

$BLOJSOM_PLUGIN_PLUGIN_HELPER.processEntryForPlugin(BlogEntry entry, String pluginName)
$BLOJSOM_PLUGIN_PLUGIN_HELPER.processEntryForFlavor(BlogEntry entry, String flavor)
$BLOJSOM_PLUGIN_PLUGIN_HELPER.processEntriesForPlugin(BlogEntry[] entries, String pluginName)
$BLOJSOM_PLUGIN_PLUGIN_HELPER.processEntriesForFlavor(BlogEntry[] entries, String flavor)

Context Attributes and Types

The following table describes the context attributes that are available and their associated type.

Context key	Input or Output	Type	Description
BLOJSOM_PLUGIN_PLUGIN_HELPER	Input	org.blojsom.plugin.helper.PluginHelperPlugin.PluginHelper	Various methods on this object exist to execute a plugin or the plugins for a specific flavor for a given entry or array of entries.