AgentBase (Java™)

Skeleton for Java™ agents

Domino® Designer generates the following skeleton code when you create a Java™ agent. If you import the agent, you must supply similar code yourself. Minimally you must create a class that extends AgentBase, provide a function called NotesMain(), and call AgentBase.getSession() to create a Session object. The code in NotesMain() executes when the agent is launched.

import lotus.domino.*;

public class JavaAgent extends AgentBase {

  public void NotesMain() {

    try {
      Session session = getSession();
      AgentContext agentContext = session.getAgentContext();

      // (Your code goes here) 

    } catch(Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

You may wish to modify the skeleton to deal specifically with NotesException exceptions. For example:

    } catch(NotesException ne) {
      System.out.println(ne.id + " " + ne.text);
    } catch(Exception e) {
      E.printStackTrace();

Instead of:

    } catch(Exception e) {
      E.printStackTrace();

Print output

For Notes® clients, System.out and System.err output from foreground agents goes to the Java™ debug console, which you can access as a separate task through Tools - Show Java™ Debug Console. Background agents print to the Domino® log.

To print to a browser from an agent started by the OpenAgent URL command, you must call AgentBase.getAgentOutput() to get a java.io.PrintWriter object. Print output from this object goes to browsers as well as the Notes® client.

The following code fragment shows how to open a view in the current database by printing the URL command to a browser. (The code replaces backslashes with forward slashes and spaces with plus signs, and encloses the URL command in brackets.)

import java.io.PrintWriter;
PrintWriter pw = getAgentOutput();
Database db = agentContext.getCurrentDatabase();
String n = db.getFileName();
n = n.replace('\\', '/').replace(' ', '+');
pw.println("[/" + n + "/Main+View?OpenView]");

Specification of AgentBase

The specification (public methods) of the AgentBase class is as follows:

public class AgentBase extends NotesThread {
    protected Session m_session;
    public AgentBase();
    public final void startup(AgentInfo info);
    public final void runNotes() throws NotesException;
    public void NotesMain();
    public Session getSession();
    public boolean isRestricted();
    public PrintWriter getAgentOutput();
    public void setDebug(boolean debug);
    public void setTrace(boolean trace);
    public void dbgMsg(String msg, PrintStream ps);
    public void dbgMsg(String msg, PrintWriter pw);
    public void dbgMsg(String msg);
    
}

Example