OpenLaszlo plugin

Tags : rich client, ajax
- rich client
- ajax
Latest : 1.0.1
Last Updated: 09 August 2009
Grails version : 1.1.1 > *

Authors : null

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Dependency :

compile ":laszlo:1.0.1"

Documentation

Summary

Installation

on Linux

Set environment variables for Grails

linux$ JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6
linux$ GRAILS_HOME=${HOME}/grails-1.1.1
linux$ PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${GRAILS_HOME}/bin:${PATH}
linux$ export JAVA_HOME GRAILS_HOME PATH

Create new Grails application

linux$ grails create-app testapp

NOTE: here "testapp" is the Grails application's name.

Install this plugin into a Grails app

linux$ cd testapp
linux$ grails install-plugin laszlo

Install OpenLaszlo servlet on GRAILS_HOME

linux$ grails install-laszlo

on Windows

Set environment variables for Grails

> set JAVA_HOME=c:Program FilesJavajdk1.6
> set GRAILS_HOME=c:grails-1.1.1
> set PATH=%JAVA_HOME%bin;%GRAILS_HOME%bin;%PATH%

Create a new Grails application

> grails create-app testapp

NOTE: here "testapp" is the Grails application's name.

Install this plugin into a Grails app

> cd testapp
> grails install-plugin laszlo

Install OpenLaszlo Servlet on GRAILS_HOME

> grails install-laszlo

NOTE: When writing new applications (when you already executed the "grails install-laszlo") you can replace this command with:

> grails copy-laszlo

Description

OpenLaszlo plugin

Abstract
Current plugin version
Command options list
Requirements
Download site
How to use OpenLaszlo plugin
Tag library
Plugin version history

Abstract

This plugin installs OpenLaszlo servlet for Grails into GRAILS_HOME directory and scaffolds artifacts of related OpenLaszlo included a Controller and Views.

Current plugin version: 1.0.1

OpenLaszlo servlet version: 4.5.0

cf. http://www.openlaszlo.org

Command options list

grails install-laszlo

installs OpenLaszlo servlet and jar libraries, which are necessary for laszlo into GRAILS_HOME. Also it downloads openlaszlo servlet war file from OpenLaszlo remote site.

grails generate-laszlo [domain-class-name]

generate scaffolding of views and controller related OpenLaszlo

grails copy-laszlo

simply copy laszlo libraries into grails_app.

grails remove-laszlo

uninstalls OpenLaszlo servlet and jar libraries from GRAILS_HOME and grails app.

Requirements

Java jdk 1.5 or later
Grails1.1.1 for laszlo plugin 1.0.1 (Grails1.1 for laszlo plugin 1.0) (Grails 1.0.4 for laszlo plugin 0.6.5) (Grails 1.0.3 for laszlo plugin 0.6.3 and 0.6.4) (Grails 1.0.2 for laszlo plugin 0.6.2) (Grails 1.0.1 for laszlo plugin 0.6.1) (Grails 1.0-RC3 for laszlo plugin 0.5.3)
Flash Player 8.0 or later

Download site

http://svn.codehaus.org/grails-plugins/grails-laszlo/trunk/grails-laszlo-1.0.1.zip

If you use a command of 'grails install-plugin laszlo', you don't need to download at all. This command will download a latest release zip file automatically from http://plugins.grails.org/grails-laszlo.

How to use OpenLaszlo plugin

Create a Domain class

> grails create-domain-class Cat

Then edit such as follows:

/*** testapp/grails-app/domain/Cat.groovy ***/
class Cat {
  String name
  Integer age
  String sex
}
/********************************************/

Generate all of artifacts (a controller, views and a lzx)

> grails generate-laszlo Cat

Start a web application

> grails run-app

Access http://localhost:8080/testapp/cat/ to watch an example app

Also http://localhost:8080/testapp/plugins/laszlo-1.0.1/charts/ for chart example

Tag library

OpenLaszloTagLib.groovy

tag	attributes	description	usage
lpsJs	src	defines javascript for laszlo	<g:lpsJs src="embed.js"/><g:lpsJs src="script.js" />
lzEmbed	src,width,height,color	embeds lzx file	<g:lzEmbed src="cat/gridList.lzx" width="800" height="400" color="#d4d0c8"/>
pluginJs	src	define javascript for plugin at grails_app_root/plugins/laszlo-1.0.1/web-app/js/	<g:pluginJs />

History

Aug.12,2009 (version 1.0.1)

tested on Grails 1.1.1
upgraded to OpenLaszlo 4.5.0

Apr.20,2009 (version 1.0)

tested on Grails version 1.1
upgraded to OpenLaszlo 4.3.0

Dec.6,2008 (version 0.6.5)

tested on Grails version 1.0.4

Jul.16,2008 (version 0.6.4)

tested on Grails version 1.0.3
upgraded to OpenLaszlo 4.1.1

Jun.29,2008 (version 0.6.3)

tested on Grails version 1.0.3
upgraded to Openlaszlo 4.0.12

Mar.27,2008 (version 0.6.2)

tested on Grails version 1.0.2

Mar.11,2008 (version 0.6.1)

tested on Grails version 1.0.1
upgraded to OpenLaszlo 4.0.10

Feb.12,2008 (version 0.6)

tested on Grails version 1.0
upgraded to OpenLaszlo 4.0.9

Dec.21,2007 (version 0.5.3)

tested on Grails version 1.0-RC3

Dec.2,2007 (version 0.5.2)

tested on Grails version 1.0-RC1
upgraded to OpenLaszlo 4.0.7

Sep.26,2007 (version 0.5.1)

upgraded OpenLaszlo from version 4.0.3 to 4.0.5.

Sep.9,2007 (version 0.5)

upgraded LZX with Ajax to paginate
added Gant script to compile LZX to SWF and to make a war file for LZX SOLO app without laszlo libraries

Sep.3,2007 (version 0.4.4)

tested on Grails verson 0.6

Aug.6,2007 (version 0.4.3)

upgraded OpenLaszlo from version 4.0.2 to 4.0.3.

Jun.18,2007 (version 0.4.2)

upgraded OpenLaszlo from version 4.0.0 to 4.0.2.
tested on Grails version 0.5.6

May 16,2007 (version 0.4.1)

changed to use templates for scaffoldings of related OpenLaszlo

May 8,2007 (version 0.4)

fixed for Grails version 0.5 upgraded.

Mar.29,2007 (version 0.3)

modifyed copyLaszlo.groovy to add java libs for OpenLaszlo 4.0.0 (thanx > Chanwit-san, Mar.30,2007)
tested on Grails 0.4.2.
upgraded OpenLaszlo from version 3.3.3 to 4.0.0.
upgraded to generate Flash swf version over 8.0.

Feb.12,2007 (version 0.2)

tested on Grails 0.4.2.
tested on Grails 0.4.1 and fixed problems on this release.
changed scaffolded distination directory into grails_app_root/plugins/Laszlo-0.2/grails-app/.

Feb.6,2007 (version 0.2)

tested on Grails 0.4 and fixed a problem of scaffolding with "generate-laszlo" option on this stable release.

Jan.19,2007 (version 0.2)

added swfobject.js to access from outside flash by Javascript.
added "grails copy-laszlo" option for only copy laszlo libraries into grails_app without "grails generate-laszlo".
fixed a bug for deployment to jakarta tomcat.

(Note:When deploying into tomcat, if it requires 'webAppRootKey' context-param in your web.xml files, please add it appropriately)

added a chart example using FusionCharts.

Dec.14,2006 (version 0.1)

install OpenLaszlo Servlet into GRAILS_HOME.
generate scaffoldings for OpenLaszlo on Grails.
remove OpenLaszlo libraries from GRAILS_HOME.