# Broken Boilerplate for intermediate blueprint plugin **URL:** \ **Category:** Confluence Development\ **Tags:** springscanner, confluence-server, blueprint\ **Created:** [January 19, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/broken-boilerplate-for-intermediate-blueprint-plugin/13716 "2018-01-19T13:20:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Exta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/13edae/32.png) [@Exta](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/Exta)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/broken-boilerplate-for-intermediate-blueprint-plugin/13716/1 "2018-01-19T13:20:14Z")
Greetings, we just installed Confluence Server Edition and want to shape it fitting our workflow. Sadly it doesn’t seem as easy as i expected. Currently i need to create a ‘intermediate’ blueprint. Nothing special. All we want is a simple blueprint with its own template and name. Also the current date should be inserted into the title (just like the meeting notes-blueprint). But i didn’t even get to this point… I followed the beginner tutorial and created a basic blueprint without any context provider nor java code. Worked as expected. After that i went on to the intermediate tutorial and tried to create a context provider. I can’t follow the tutorial anymore since it seems like it uses some old `confluence-create-content-plugin`. Also the created plugin boilerplate already includes some java-code splitted into `impl` and `api`. I tried to work around this issue and follow the guide, but wasn’t able to get it working. To get a better idea of a working code example i found (or so i though…?) the source of the meeting notes-blueprint on bitbucket. [https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/confluence-business-blueprints/src/84b86c46d457?at=master](https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/confluence-business-blueprints/src/84b86c46d457?at=master) But a cloned repo does also not run via `atlas-run`. Next i tried to use the atlas-sdk scripts to create a clean plugin and blueprint boilerplate. So i used `atlas-create-confluence-plugin` to create my plugin (which works), followed by `atlas-create-confluence-plugin-module` and selected the option `blueprint`. Also added a ContextProvider via the interactive script. And guess what? It doesn’t work. Seems like the Script creates also a ‘old’ version of ContextProvider-Blueprint since `atlas-run` fails with `package com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.createcontent.api.contextproviders does not exist`. All i was able to find about this issue are old threads without a working solution, people telling each other how bad the confluence-guides are and some info about using Spring-Scanner instead of the broken `create-content-plugin`. (I would provide links to my found threads, but i am not allowed to post more links.) I was redirected to the README-file of the used Spring-Scanner in Confluence but can’t wrap my head around how to use it in my ‘simple’ blueprint. I really didn’t though that this will need so much work. All i want is the current Date in the Page Title to make the confluence experience for my coworkers as pleasant as possible… ---
**Author:** ![Panos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/atlassiandeveloper/user_avatar/community.developer.atlassian.com/panos/32/36018_2.png) [@Panos](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/Panos)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/broken-boilerplate-for-intermediate-blueprint-plugin/13716/2 "2018-01-19T21:27:56Z")
Usually the solution is simple, truth is confluence can be bitchy until you master it. Truth is though I can’t reproduce your error with confluence 5.8.8. To me it sounds like an OSGi issue, please take a look on your pom.xml, in the section of plugins, in the artifact maven-confluence-plugin, especially the Import-Package section. It should be looking like ```auto org.springframework.osgi.*;resolution:="optional", org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.*;resolution:="optional", com.atlassian.plugin.osgi.bridge.external, com.atlassian.confluence.plugin.descriptor.web.conditions.user;resolution:="optional", com.atlassian.confluence.plugin.descriptor.web.conditions;resolution:="optional", com.atlassian.confluence.mail.notification.actions;resolution:="optional", com.atlassian.confluence.pages.persistence.dao.*;resolution:="optional", *;resolution:=optional ``` Now, add the com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.createcontent.api.contextproviders in the section, just like rest of entries and ensure that the dependency confluence-create-content-plugin has scope provided. If that won’t work, please make some github so i can check it. ---
**Author:** ![Exta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/13edae/32.png) [@Exta](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/Exta)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/broken-boilerplate-for-intermediate-blueprint-plugin/13716/3 "2018-01-24T13:41:13Z")
Thank you for your help. Indeed, confluence feels bitchy. But i managed to archive ‘something’? I created a new plugin, followed the beginner guide to create u dumb blueprint. Worked out fine. I deleted the `impl` and `api` folder and placed my `BlueprintContextProvider.java` there. I tried something simple first: `blueprintContext.put("vName", "TestUserName");` to test my ‘structure’. First i got failing Maven-Unit-Tests. So i deleted the test-files in the test-dir. Still: Tests failing… Some googling later i am starting the test-server via `atlas-run -DskipTests=true -Dmaven.test.skip=true` (is it somehow possible to disable the maven tests till use them globally?). Anyway, my simple Variable Function worked. Now i wanted to create what i was trying to archive: Put the current date into the Site-Title. As best as i could i tried to copy the official meeting-notes blueprint ([Bitbucket](https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/confluence-business-blueprints/src/84b86c46d4577b3cbe189ececd092689a06efcf7/plugin/src/main/java/com/atlassian/confluence/plugins/meetingnotes/MeetingNotesContextProvider.java?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default)) Worked out every thrown error. Now `atlas-run -DskipTests=true -Dmaven.test.skip=true` starts without a problem. No `ERROR` message or Warnings. But when log into confluence the blueprint plugin does’nt load. `This add-on couldn't be loaded. It has one or more errors that prevent it from being enabled.` Where can i find the error-log, or what can cause this? Maybe my BlueprintContextProvider.java-file can help out: [package com.domain.confluence.plugins.bautagebuch;import com.atlassian.confl - Pastebin.com](https://pastebin.com/mPrvxQMn) It sits in `../src/main/java/com/domain/confluence/plugins/`. Greetings ---
**Author:** ![Panos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/atlassiandeveloper/user_avatar/community.developer.atlassian.com/panos/32/36018_2.png) [@Panos](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/Panos)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/broken-boilerplate-for-intermediate-blueprint-plugin/13716/4 "2018-01-24T14:38:07Z")
> [@Exta](#): > > is it somehow possible to disable the maven tests till use them globally? by doing `atlas-run -DskipTests=true` as you did. > [@Exta](#): > > here can i find the error-log, or what can cause this? The output of atlas-run should contain the cause. Otherwise you are looking for `catalina.out` file. Generally speaking `catalina.out` and `atlassian-confluence.log` are your sources of logging. Without looking on the tutorial you followed… add @Scanned in your class, @ComponentImport in whatever you DI and @Inject in the constructor. Your class should look like: ```auto @Scanned public class BautagebuchContextProvider extends AbstractBlueprintContextProvider { @ComponentImport private LocaleManager localeManager; @ComponentImport private final I18NBeanFactory i18NBeanFactory; @ComponentImport private final UserAccessor userAccessor; @ComponentImport private final FormatSettingsManager formatSettingsManager; @Inject public BautagebuchContextProvider(LocaleManager localeManager, I18NBeanFactory i18NBeanFactory, UserAccessor userAccessor, FormatSettingsManager formatSettingsManager) { this.localeManager = localeManager; this.i18NBeanFactory = i18NBeanFactory; this.userAccessor = userAccessor; this.formatSettingsManager = formatSettingsManager; } ``` I am not quite sure if i18nbeanfactory needs it. Improvise 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Exta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/13edae/32.png) [@Exta](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/Exta)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/broken-boilerplate-for-intermediate-blueprint-plugin/13716/5 "2018-01-30T16:12:59Z")
Thank you Panos once again. I played with @ComponentImport and @Inject and was able to understand the needed basics to get it working (Blueprint with String-Date in the Title). For my last magic trick i need to get the current Space Name and place it into the document. Sadly i need help once again. I searched through the javadoc and found some classes which return the space-name e.g.: [SpaceContentEntityObject (Atlassian Confluence 5.9.2 API)](https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-confluence/5.9.2/com/atlassian/confluence/core/SpaceContentEntityObject.html#SpaceContentEntityObject--) or Spaced, GlobalHelper, … But i always get the same error: `non-static method getSpace() cannot be referenced from a static context`. I am not really into object-oriented-programming, but i though that this could fix it: ```auto @Scanned public class BautagebuchContextProvider extends AbstractBlueprintContextProvider { [...] @ComponentImport private final GlobalHelper globalHelper; @Inject public BautagebuchContextProvider(LocaleManager localeManager, [...] GlobalHelper globalHelper, [...]) { [...] this.globalHelper = globalHelper; } ``` Sadly it only results into a timeout while loading the plugin (while starting the tomcat server for confluence) till the plugin gets skipped after 25 seconds. Is the some function i can use in a static context, or do i only need a little snippet again, which i am missing out? 🙂 As reference my current code: [http://pastebin.centos.org/521356/](http://pastebin.centos.org/521356/) Greetings ---
**Author:** ![Panos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/atlassiandeveloper/user_avatar/community.developer.atlassian.com/panos/32/36018_2.png) [@Panos](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/Panos)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/broken-boilerplate-for-intermediate-blueprint-plugin/13716/6 "2018-01-30T18:03:46Z")
Step 1) Change the GlobalHelper with com.atlassian.confluence.web.context.HttpContext.HttpContext Step 2) Get the ThemeContext: ThemeContext themeContext = ThemeContext.get(httpContext.getRequest()); Step 3) Get the space(key) by themeContext.getSpace() / themeContext.getSpaceKe() Step 4) Profit and accept the answer 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Exta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/13edae/32.png) [@Exta](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/Exta)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 10:01am UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/broken-boilerplate-for-intermediate-blueprint-plugin/13716/7 "2018-01-31T10:01:38Z")
I really would like to press that that “accept the answer” button, but i think i need one last step 😃 I imported `HttpContext` and `ThemeContext`, added `HttpContext` via: ```auto @ComponentImport private final HttpContext httpContext; @Inject public BautagebuchContextProvider(LocaleManager localeManager, [...] HttpContext httpContext, [...]) { [...] this.httpContext = httpContext; } ``` and tried to get the spacename with: ```auto ThemeContext themeContext = ThemeContext.get(httpContext.getRequest()); Space space = themeContext.getSpace(); String spaceName = space.getName(); blueprintContext.put("vSpaceName", spaceName); ``` which resulted in a `javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest not found` error. After some googling i added the following to my pom.xml-file: ```auto javax.servlet servlet-api 2.3 provided ``` The Plugin now compiles, but i can’t use the blueprint in confluence: `We can't create that blueprint right now.`. Also no Error-Output in the console. As soon as i remove the quoted snippets, everything works fine. (I also tried the newest version of javax.servlet e.g. 2.5) Thank you again Panos! … if you want to see the whole ContextProvider: [http://pastebin.centos.org/523271/](http://pastebin.centos.org/523271/) Edit: When i try a different approach: ```auto ThemeContext themeContext = ThemeContext.get(httpContext.getRequest()); String spaceKey = themeContext.getSpaceKey(); Space space = new Space(spaceKey); String spaceName = space.getName(); blueprintContext.put("vSpaceName", spaceName); ``` i don’t get any errors, but the variable field stays blank 😖 * * * Edit2: Okay, i just got it working… Somehow i was not able to retrieve a proper SpaceKey (always blank). So i simply guessed and tried to interact with the given `BlueprintContext`: ```auto String spaceKey = blueprintContext.getSpaceKey(); Space space = spaceManager.getSpace(spaceKey); String spaceName = space.getName(); blueprintContext.put("vSpaceName", spaceName); ``` and it works! Sadly i really just guessed (after reading about generated PageID and the whole meaning of “context”. And since we are using java, i simply tried a function i often found in similar objects… Can you link me the right documentation for this? I can’t find it and want to read about this blueprintContext. Also i want to give you the answer 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Panos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/atlassiandeveloper/user_avatar/community.developer.atlassian.com/panos/32/36018_2.png) [@Panos](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/Panos)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/broken-boilerplate-for-intermediate-blueprint-plugin/13716/8 "2018-01-31T16:37:01Z")
I am sorry, i dont understand what you mean by “right documentation”. Documentation for confluence is so sparsed, depending on version, plugin version and much more. example… confluence is a mix of spring and atlassian stuff where spring core is tied to atlassian needs. At least that’s my perception. I also never used blueprints 🙂