Dynamically Adding JSF Portlets to Liferay Portal

For this tutorial, you’ll learn how to dynamically add portlets to Liferay Portal pages. Here are the places in which you can add a portlet:

Inside the FreeMarker template or Velocity template of a theme with $theme.runtime()
Inside a layout template with $processor.processPortlet()
Inside a JSP with <liferay-portlet:runtime />

Unfortunately, as described in FACES-244, dynamically adding JSF portlets doesn’t work very well. It’s actually not limited to JSF portlets– this problem happens with any portlet that needs to add JS/CSS resources to the <head>…</head> section of the portal page. Since JSF portlets require the jsf.js resource to perform Ajax requests, the jsf.js resource must be loaded when the portal page is initially rendered.

There are two workarounds:

For plain JSF portlets, add a <link /> element for the jsf.js resource in the <head>…</head> section of the portal_normal.vm or portal_normal.ftl file in the theme. The first few lines of jsf.js prevent double-instantiation in case it gets included multiple times on a page. This can occur when a JSF portlet is dynamically included and another JSF portlet is added statically. Unfortunately, this approach doesn’t work for PrimeFaces, since primefaces.js does not prevent double-instantiation.

Use an IFrame:

<div id="${request.portlet-namespace}my_runtime_portlet">
    <script type="text/javascript">
        AUI().use('liferay-portlet-url', 'aui-resize-iframe', function(A) {
        var portletURL = Liferay.PortletURL.createRenderURL();
        portletURL.setPortletId('1_WAR_mypluginportlet');
        portletURL.setPlid(themeDisplay.getPlid());
        var html = '<iframe frameborder="0" id="${request.portlet-namespace}my_runtime_portlet_frame" src="' + portletURL.toString() + '" scrolling="no" width="100%"></iframe>';
        A.one('#${request.portlet-namespace}my_runtime_portlet').append(html);
        A.one('#${request.portlet-namespace}my_runtime_portlet_frame').plug(A.Plugin.ResizeIframe);
        });
    </script>
</div>

In order to avoid the You do not have the roles required to access this portlet error message, add the following directive to the WEB-INF/liferay-portlet.xml descriptor:

<add-default-resource>true</add-default-resource>

Alternatively, you can place the portlet alone on a hidden portal page and then use a portlet URL referring to the plid of the hidden portal page. This approach is more appropriate for portlets that perform security-sensitive actions.

Note, when an end-user dynamically adds any JSF 2 portlet to a portal page, the JSF 2 standard jsf.js JavaScript code is not automatically executed. In order for the jsf.js to be executed, the page must be fully refreshed.

As a workaround, Liferay Portal provides configuration parameters that allow the developer to specify that a full page refresh is required. Specifying this ensures that JSF 2 is properly initialized. You specify the required <render-weight> and <ajaxable> parameter elements in the WEB-INF/liferay-portlet.xml configuration file.

<liferay-portlet-app>
    <portlet>
        <portlet-name>my_portlet</portlet-name>
        <instanceable>false</instanceable>
        <render-weight>1</render-weight>
        <ajaxable>false</ajaxable>
    </portlet>
</liferay-portlet-app>

Now, you know the options you have in dynamically adding your JSF portlets at runtime.

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