2.8. RTL (Right To Left) Framework

The following topics are covered:

2.8.1. Groovy templates
2.8.2. Stylesheet
2.8.3. Images
2.8.4. Client side JavaScript

The text orientation depends on the current locale setting. The orientation is a Java 5 enum that provides a set of functionalities:

   LT, // Western Europe
   RT, // Middle East (Arabic, Hebrew)
   TL, // Japanese, Chinese, Korean
   TR; // Mongolian
   public boolean isLT() { ... }
   public boolean isRT() { ... }
   public boolean isTL() { ... }
   public boolean isTR() { ... }

The object defining the Orientation for the current request is the UIPortalApplication. However, it should be accessed at runtime using the RequestContext that delegates to the UIPortalApplication.

In case of PortalRequestContext, it directly delegates as the PortalRequestContext has a reference to the current UIPortalApplication.

In case of a different context, such as the PortletRequestContext, it delegates to the parent context given the fact that the root RequestContext is always a PortalRequestContext.