DOM variable PORTAL_URL is now base_url in Plone6

mtrebron · September 25, 2022, 1:32pm

While updating a theme to Plone6, I noticed that a piece of js that performs cosmetic fixes stopped working. This is because it was looking for PORTAL_URL in the DOM of the page, and this is now gone in Plone6... Lucklily, the value is still available, but now as base_url

I got curious and started searching as to what caused this change and why, but can"t seem to find anything more recent than the removal of plone_javascript_variables in 2015 and some GitHub chatter from 2017.

Where is this documented?

yurj · September 26, 2022, 7:37am

The standard way is to get it from the page with:

$("body").attr("data-portal-url");

A Page inside a Folder — English here I can't find base_url, maybe it is available in some context?

alert · September 26, 2022, 7:42am

I would expect base URL to be something different from the portal URL.

mtrebron · September 26, 2022, 4:18pm

Thank you both!

I found PORTAL_URL here:

github.com

plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/5.2.9/Products/CMFPlone/resources/browser/configjs.py#L11-L17


      
          configjs = """requirejs.config({
              baseUrl: PORTAL_URL,
              paths: %s,
              shim: %s,
              optimize: 'uglify',
              wrapShim: true
          });"""

I would too.

Am going to avoid the issue completely and use the data attribute from now on...