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What does widget-connection mean and how it works?

I am learning hybris and I am stuck at widget creation. While creating a widget there is a tag , what does it do and why it's used?

Solution

  • Let's cover the basics first:

    • in the Backoffice, everything you see is a widget
    • widgets declare so-called "sockets". Widgets can send and receive events on sockets (the same idea as "signals and slots" from Qt, for example)

    And now you may ask yourself: How can I configure which widgets sends data do which other widget?

    And that's where widget-connection comes in. With this tag, you can define that the data/event emitted by widget A on slot A1 is received by widget B on slot B2, for example.

    Check out the "Backoffice Framework Architecture" page on help.hybris.com and all the sub-pages underneath it for the in-depth explanation for all Backoffice concepts