In a previous article I explained How to implement a custom Gogo shell command for Liferay 7; in this new article I will explain some other useful information to refine your custom command.
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Liferay DXP (and its free counterpart Liferay 7) introduced many new features, first of all the OSGi integration. Among the many new tools provided there is a shell to interact with the OSGi container; I'm talking about Gogo shell (a subproject of Apache Felix) accessible with the command telnet localhost 11311.
Once accessed to the shell, we can see the list of all available commands simply by typing help; each command is formed by a scope (a kind of grouping) and a name.
So let's see how to create a custom command to be executed inside the Gogo shell.
Read more: How to implement a custom Gogo shell command for Liferay 7
In the previous article (Create a reusable AlloyUI custom validator) we saw how to create a reusable custom validator with AlloyUI; using the same principle, I want to show you how to validate a combo, integrating with the form validator.
AutoFields is an AlloyUI component which can be used inside a form to dynamically add multiple elements.
Liferay uses it in many points: have you ever tried to enter a phone number or an address into your user profile? Have you noticed the + and - buttons? By pressing these buttons whole portions of HTML are added (or removed) to the form, allowing you to add multiple items; and all is integrated with the history management.
So let's see how to use this component in a custom plugin.
The AlloyUI framework integrated within Liferay provides a very powerful and flexible system for the form validation: some default validators (required, url, email, ...) are provided and you can also create custom validators with your personal application logic.
But if you want to re-use many times the same custom validator, you need to duplicate code around the application; so let's see a very interesting way to define a reusable custom validator.