How to render tokens in a Widget?

Question

Hi all,

I am developing a widget that allows the admin to provide a chunk of HTML that will be rendered when the widget is viewed.

As part of that I have defined two insertable tokens, that the admin to insert into the HTML editor.

Here is the relevant section of the Configuration.

<property id="html" dataType="html" rows="25" template="core_v2_customTokenizedHtml">
    <propertyValue value="firstname" labelText="First Name" />
    <propertyValue value="lastname" labelText="Last Name" />
</property>

Q: In the widget code, how can I replace those token with the actual values (that I grabbed from elsewhere)?

Is there an API for that, or do I just need to do a search and replace for "{firstname}" and "{lastname}" in the HTML?

Thanks.

Karl Barber · Accepted Answer

That's an interesting question.......

Here is a sample which may help based on your config

<property id="html" dataType="html" rows="25" template="core_v2_customTokenizedHtml">
<propertyValue value="firstname" labelText="First Name" />
<propertyValue value="lastname" labelText="Last Name" />
</property>

with the jsm widget code something like this

var tokens = {
    firstname: "Karl",
    lastname: "Barber"
};

var body = core_v2_language.FormatString(core_v2_widget.GetHtmlValue('html', ''), tokens);

or velocity would be something like this

#set($tokens = "%{ firstname='Karl' , lastname='Barber'}")
#set($html = $core_v2_language.FormatString($core_v2_widget.GetHtmlValue('html', ''), $tokens))

How to render tokens in a Widget?

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