Building block to create pre-populated web-link

Jeff Scissom posted on 6 Jul 2012 1:36 PM

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Hi All,

I'm new to custom building blocks, but have gotten a decent amount of examples to work with. I'm trying to create a building block that, in essence, creates a web-link exactly like the built in function does, but has a prepopulated URL. The URL is "../courseID/term". 

Now, my problem is that I can get the building block to create the item using the following class:

public class ContentCreator {
public static void createContent(String title, String inputHtml, String sCourseId, String sParentId) 
throws PersistenceException, ValidationException {

// retrieve the Db persistence manager from the persistence service
BbPersistenceManager bbPm = PersistenceServiceFactory.getInstance().getDbPersistenceManager();

// create a course document and set all desired attributes
Content content = new Content();
content.setContentHandler("resource/x-bb-externallink");
content.setLaunchInNewWindow(true);
content.setTitle(title);
content.setUrl("http://www.google.com");

// set additional attributes
Id courseId = bbPm.generateId(Course.DATA_TYPE, sCourseId);
Id parentId = bbPm.generateId(Course.DATA_TYPE, sParentId);
content.setCourseId(courseId);
content.setParentId(parentId);

// retrieve content persister and persist the content item
ContentDbPersister persister = (ContentDbPersister) bbPm.getPersister(ContentDbPersister.TYPE);
persister.persist(content);

}

}