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In many projects we find that developers need to extend the behaviour of the AssetRendererFactories to fit their needs, and, even it is not that hard, it takes a while to think on the best and cleaner way to achieve this.
In this article I'll be using UserAssetRendererFactory as an example
1.- Create an ext plugin (in the Liferay IDE: File - new - Liferay Portlet - ext)
2.- Add the portlet you want to modify/extend to liferay-portlet-ext.xml
In our example:
<portlet>
<portlet-name>11</portlet-name>
[...]
<asset-renderer-factory>com.myfactory.MyUserAssetRendererFactory</asset-renderer-factory>
[...]
</portlet>
3.- Create a class that extends the original AssetRendererFactory and the add or modify the methods we need
(Example)
package com.liferay.portlet.directory.asset;
import com.liferay.portlet.directory.asset.UserAssetRendererFactory;
public class MyUserAssetRendererFactory extends UserAssetRendererFactory {
public boolean isLinkable() {
return true;
}
public boolean isSelectable() {
return true;
}
}
4.- Deploy, restart the server and you are ready to go! :)
Juan Fernández
Related information: Asset Framework
