net.sf.jabb.util.web

Annotation Type WebMenu

@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
 @Target(value={TYPE,METHOD})
public @interface WebMenu

This annotation marks a method in Spring MVC to be associated with a menu item

Author:

james.hu

Optional Element Summary

Optional Elements

Modifier and Type	Optional Element and Description
String	authority The authority associated with this menu item.
boolean	dynamic Whether the menu item is dynamic or not.
String	menu Name of the menu tree.
int	order Display order of this item.
String	path Path of this menu item in the whole menu tree.
String	url URL overriding.
String	value Title of this menu item.

Element Detail

value

public abstract String value

Title of this menu item. It can be omitted, which means a menu item will not be created for this method but the URL/path of this method will be used to associate it with an existing menu item.

For example, if GET /test already have menu item with title 'Test' defined, we can annotate POST /test as a menu item with an empty title.

Returns:

title of this menu item

Default:

""

url

public abstract String url

URL overriding. It can be omitted, which means URL should be read from Spring MVC RequestMapping annotation

Returns:

URL to access this menu item.

Default:

""

path

public abstract String path

Path of this menu item in the whole menu tree. It can be omitted, which means that the path is the same as URL

Returns:

path of this menu item in the whole menu tree

Default:

""

order

public abstract int order

Display order of this item. Normally the item with smallest display order will be shown first.

Returns:

the display order

Default:

0

menu

public abstract String menu

Name of the menu tree. There can be multiple menu trees in one application. It can be omitted if it is okay to use an empty string as the menu name.

Returns:

name of the menu tree

Default:

""

dynamic

public abstract boolean dynamic

Whether the menu item is dynamic or not. Normally a dynamic menu item will only be shown when current URL is associated with it.

Returns:

whether it is dynamic or not

Default:

false

authority

public abstract String authority

The authority associated with this menu item. Normally only users with authority granted will be able to see this menu item.

Returns:

the name of this authority

Default:

""