HQU Documentation

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Introduction

• Introduction
• Useful Links, GroovyDoc, and Resources

Creating your own plugin

• Getting Started
• Scaffolding - new plugin in 10 seconds
• Viewing it within HQ - view your new plugin inside HQ in 45 seconds
• Start editing - How (and where) to start hacking

Where do plugins get displayed?

• Views and Attachments

Debugging and experimenting

• The Groovy Console
• Plugin Mon - manages HQU plugins

APIs – How do I write code that integrates with HQ?

• API Summary
• Groovy APIs
• Backend HQ APIs

Rendering with HTML, JSON, and Dojo

• .GSPs, Controllers, Views, and a Simple Request Cycle
• The render() method
• DojoUtil
• Localization

Web-Services and shell scripting

• JSON Web Services
• XML Web Services

Plugin metadata

• Plugin Directory Layout
• Plugin.groovy, plugin.properties – Deployment and Creating Attachments

HQU Plugins

• HQU Forge - within the HyperFORGE

Future topics

• API checking

1. MVC
2. Model interaction
   1. Searching and Sorting
   2. Forms
   3. Templates
3. HQU Architecture
4. Plugin Manager
5. GConsole
6. Email Templating
7. HQ Subsystems
   1. Method authorization
   2. Paging
   3. Alerting