getting assembled items content type from parent template

Rhythmyx Technical Discussion
1

I am trying to retrieve the content type of an item assembled of a slot, without actually using a separate template.

I am not sure what code I should be using to achieve this, but I’ve tried variations of $sys.item.definition.name with no luck.


#initslot("rffList" "")
	#if($sys.currentslot.relresults.size() > 0)
		#foreach($relresult in $sys.currentslot.relresults)
			#set($type = $relresult.definition.name)
		#end
	#end
#endslot("rffList")

I’m obviously doing something wrong, what am I missing?

Thanks!
Nick D

2

Hi Nick

You get the content type name from item and not the assembly item:

#set($type = $relresult.Node.getPrimaryNodeType().Name)

It’s also returned like this:

rx:yourContentTypeName

Cheers
James

3

That’s interesting. I use:


#set($content_type = $relresult.getNode().getPrimaryNodeType().getType())##

and what i get back is myContentTypeName (ie no “rx:” in front). From what i can tell, both of them should return the same value as we do use the same method. Could it be differing RX versions (i have been using it since 6.5.2)?

4

Wow, where do you learn about that code?

Thanks for the help everyone!

edit: that worked perfectly! I used the first example. Thanks jimbo and jitendra!

5

Eh…I learned about it the round about way: I knew what the java class relresult was then looked at the jar file corresponding to it and figured out what methods were available to that class.

But that was before I knew what I was doing (read experience). Of course now I would just look at the API (usually located at [RX ROOT]/Docs/Rhythmyx/Javadocs/index.html) :slight_smile: to figure out what actions i can do to a specific item.

I believe velocity equates Node => getNode method calls (if Node does not exist…same with all other method calls starting with “get”) hence the code that I gave should be identical to Jimbos (which is why i was wondering why he had the “rx:” in front of what was returned…