topic How to safely use displayPath in Template? in Alfresco Archive

How to safely use displayPath in Template?

stk137 — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:07:38 GMT

How can I safely use node.displayPath in a template?Just using this ${child.displayPath}‍throws the UnexpectedRollbackException below when running as a user who doesn't have permissions across the path. It's ok when running as an admin.When I look at the code, it looks like it should be safe to cal

Re: How to safely use displayPath in Template?

kevinr — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:43:21 GMT

This is a bug - the code should not allow exceptions to go off internally which cause the transaction to fail later. If the user does not have access to the entire path then it cannot be rendered and "" should be returned but not throw an exception internally.

I have raised a JIRA item for this:
http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/AR-1782

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: How to safely use displayPath in Template?

stk137 — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:19:13 GMT

This is a bug - the code should not allow exceptions to go off internally which cause the transaction to fail later. If the user does not have access to the entire path then it cannot be rendered and "" should be returned but not throw an exception internally.

I have raised a JIRA item for this:
http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/AR-1782

Thanks,

Kevin

oops, right after I posted I also decided that it's must be a bug even if there's a work around. So, I also created a JIRA item
http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/AWC-1607

Re: How to safely use displayPath in Template?

stk137 — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:49:23 GMT

http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/AR-1782

it says see
http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/CHK-1454
but I can't access that

Can you repeat anything noteworthy that I am missing?

Re: How to safely use displayPath in Template?

kevinr — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:25:09 GMT

Yes sorry i didn't know the CHECKIN project was internal - i've updated the issue with the comments.

Thanks,

Kevin