Liferay upgrade to 6.1.0

[Balaji Chopparapu, modificado hace 12 años.]

Hi,

We are upgrading from liferay 5.2 to latest version liferay 6.1.0. I converted ext to ext plugin using the upgrade utility provided by the liferay but observed following issues.

In liferay 6.1.0 we couldn’t find the classes “MBMessageFlagLocalServiceUtil.java” and “BBCodeUtil.java”. Are they removed? If it is. What are the other alternate classes provided?

Thanks in Advance
Balaji

[Alexander Chow, modificado hace 12 años.]

MBMessageFlagLocalServiceUtil was renamed and optimised into MBThreadFlagLocalServiceUtil. See LPS-20275.

BBCodeUtil was merged with a few other things and renamed BBCodeTranslatorUtil. See LPS-20791

Alex

[Balaji Chopparapu, modificado hace 12 años.]

Thanks Alexander. It worked.

[Farrel Chen, modificado hace 12 años.]

Thanks for the useful info. However, do you know what are these functions changed to?

The method hasReadFlag(long, MBThread) is undefined for the type MBThreadFlagLocalServiceUtil
The method hasAnswerFlag(long) is undefined for the type MBThreadFlagLocalServiceUtil
The method hasQuestionFlag(long) is undefined for the type MBThreadFlagLocalServiceUtil
The method hasReadFlag(long, MBThread) is undefined for the type MBThreadFlagLocalServiceUtil

[Jan Eerdekens, modificado hace 12 años.]

I'm running into the same kind of issue after an upgrade. Before I was perfectly able to add question/answer flags using the MBMessageFlagLocalServiceUtil, but now I can't seem to find the new counterparts. Time and time again Liferay keeps breaking APIs without providing enough information, e.g. documentation, on how to migrate code that uses APIs that have changed.

[Farrel Chen, modificado hace 12 años.]

Yes that really sucks.
I later figured that it's easier to use the 6.1 version as base, and redo the customization -- I located all the customized code by comparing my code and the 6.0.5 source code.

[Jan Eerdekens, modificado hace 12 años.]

It seems that now in 6.1 when you create your category you have to pass in "question" as the 5th parameter to the addCategory call instead of adding a question flag later. If you then want to mark an answer you need to do

MBMessageLocalServiceUtil.updateAnswer(answer.getMessageId(), true, false);

instead of adding an answer flag like before. At least this is what did the trick for me.