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String getTemplateTitle()

This is the name of your widget. It will be the name displayed to users when the widget is available in the canvas widget panels.

public String getTemplateTitle() {

    return “My Code Widget”;

}

void setupResources()

This is the method to define any front-end resources your widget may require. This will be called when the class is initialised. Whatever resources are added here will tell Yellowfin which files the front-end is allowed to load. If you attempt to load a file from the front end that is not defined here, it will be rejected. 

Use the addResource(Resource); function to add your resources.  See Resource for information about Resource objects

Any resource you add here will be relative to the AbstractCodeTemplate implementation.

Any resources defined by this function are relative to the location of the AbstractCodeTemplate location.

So if, for example, our Java package is:

my.code.widget

my_widget.js could be located in the my.code.widget.resource package:

my.code.widget
   -MyCodeWidget.java
my.code.widget.resource
   -my_widget.js

We can define my_widget.js using the following 

void setupResources() {

    addResource(new Resource(“resource/my_widget.js”, “text/javascript”));

}

String getMainJavascriptPath()

This defines the entry point for your code widget. This will be the first file loaded by Yellowfin, and then called. The file you choose must return a constructor. See the JavaScript section for details.

String getMainJavascriptPath() {

    return “my_widget.js”;

}

CanvasWidgetPanel getPanel(CanvasWidgetPanelInfo panelInfo)

Used to define the Widget Properties Panel allowing you to define any custom options you wish for your widget. If null is returned from this method, the default widget properties panel will be used. 

CanvasWidgetPanel getPanel(CanvasWidgetPanelInfo panelInfo) {

     return new MyCodeWidgetPanel(panelInfo);

}

//To use the default canvas panel

CanvasWidgetPanel getPanel(CanvasWidgetPanelInfo panelInfo) {

     return null;

}

See the Widget Properties Panel section for details