{"id":626,"date":"2009-05-19T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/wordpress\/?p=626"},"modified":"2011-12-17T12:30:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T16:30:41","slug":"slingsakai-building-a-widget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2009\/05\/slingsakai-building-a-widget\/","title":{"rendered":"Sling\/Sakai Building a Widget"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nFresh off getting my first Sling Application finished last night – I came in and told Ian that I had nothing to do today. Of course he said “no” – I needed to build a widget for LTI as well. I said “what widget” and he said that the whole Slikai UI was there under http:\/\/localhost:8080\/dev and I needed to write a Widget.<\/p>\n

\nI started work at 10AM – with a quick tutorial from Nico and his HelloWorld example, I hacked away at it. After about 2 hours working by myself I had it doing settings and creating the resource. At that point Nico helped me do the actual launch iframe and a few nice bits like a cancel button and it was done and put some polish on it.
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\nIt was done three hours after I started – and this was my first widget since I tried back in July 2008. I was pretty pleased with the ease of figuring things out – maybe I just knew more about AJAX, jQuery, JavaScript, and FireBug after writing those chapters in the book. However and whatever the case – it came together quickly and the ability to use Sling to handle all my persistence needs instead of writing a service and plugging it into sdata made an amazing difference in ease of building my widget and getting it running.<\/p>\n

\nSo now I am done with today’s task. All is now checked into my SVN repo in contrib\/csev\/trunk\/sling<\/p>\n

\nSo I told Ian that I was done with the widget and still had the whole afternoon free! So he told me to add Pluto 2.0 (JSR-286) to Sling\/Sakai. That sounds like a good idea – but more than a three hour tour. So we will just draw pictures and call it good.<\/p>\n

\nIn summary, I continue to be pleased with the Sling\/Sakai combination and eagerly look forward to its evolution.<\/p>\n

\nThe additional README bits are below. Again many thanks to Ian and Nico for their patient mentoring.<\/p>\n

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\n==== Making the widget work ====\nRun the script \"dowidget.sh\" - it will upload the widget\nto your Sling instance.\nNote - if you run the script more than once, you will\nget 2 405 errors.  This is OK the folders already exist\nThen edit the file in your Sling repo\n\/Volumes\/localhost\/dev\/_configuration\/widgets.js\nLook for the entry right after helloworld\nand add the widget definition for simplelti\nin content\/devwidgets\/widgets.js\nThen go to\nhttp:\/\/localhost:8080\/dev\/\nlogin as admin\/admin, place an LTI widget\ndo \"Settings\" and set\nurl: http:\/\/wiscrowd.appspot.com\/wiscrowd\nsecret: secret\nand press Save\nViola - you should see LTI in the portal!\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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