Looking Up Objects

Context

This section describes how to look up a PCD object and get the semantic object for the object.

Procedure


  1. Set the parameters for a JNDI lookup in the PCD.

    Hashtable env = new Hashtable();

env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
    IPcdContext.PCD_INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY);
env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, request.getUser());
env.put(Constants.REQUESTED_ASPECT, PcmConstants.ASPECT_SEMANTICS);

  2. Perform the lookup by supplying the PCD name of the object, and then cast the returned object to the appropriate semantic object interface.

    InitialContext iCtx = null;
try
{
    String iViewID = "pcd:portal_content/myFolder/stocks";
 
    iCtx = new InitialContext(env);
    IiView myIView =(IiView)iCtx.lookup(iViewID);
}       
catch(NamingException e)
{
}