Message templates

Last modified 13 Dec 2022 12:16 +01:00

Since 4.5

This functionality is available since version 4.5.

Table of Contents

Message template structure
GUI configuration
Expression example

Message template is an object that provides a template for the content of a message, i.e. a notification message. It specifies typical components of such a message - like subject, body and attachments. In addition to the defaultContent for the message, additional localized contents can be defined based on recipient’s preferredLanguage or locale property.

Message template structure

The logical structure of the message template is:

GUI configuration

You can define the message templates in GUI:

The detail allows to enter the expressions for each content component:

The Localized content allows having localized templates for specific languages. The message template language is selected according to recipient’s preferredLanguage or locale property.

Expressions in the message template produce string results. For this reason, use of Velocity templates is a natural fit. Currently, the expressions must be still entered as an XML code, but there are tentative plans to make writing of templates easier, e.g. by copy/pasting HTML template for the message.

Expression example

An example of a body expression can look like this:

<script>
    <language>velocity</language>
    <code><![CDATA[The following changes were made for user <b>${requestee.name}</b>:
#* Executed deltas are too noisy + diving into its objectDelta is needed:
<ul>
#foreach ($delta in $event.focusContext.executedDeltas)
   <li>$delta.objectDelta.debugDump()</li>
#end
</ul>
*#
$event.focusContext.primaryDelta.debugDump()]]></code>
</script>

The template expression above demonstrates:

As mentioned, Velocity can be a better option for textual templates. Since midPoint 4.5 one can specify the language with the local part of the language URL - which is velocity in this case.
It is possible to iterate over collections with #foreach macro.
It is possible to comment out some parts - here the whole iteration is actually commented with #* … *# block.

Of course, it is possible to use script expression with any other supported language (e.g. Groovy), or you can use any other expression evaluator.

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