Splunk® Enterprise

Module System Reference

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Extension dictionary

Important notice: As part of Advanced XML deprecation, the Module System is officially deprecated beginning with Splunk Enterprise 6.3. For more information, see Advanced XML Deprecation.

controllers.BaseController

Module System component: MVC controller

Parent: object

Mechanism: Subclass using the web.conf bootstrap name to hook into the framework

Usage: Overriding existing methods is not recommended; If you need to override the initialize() constructor, call the parent constructor using $super() first to ensure the parent is initialized; add additional methods as needed

SplunkAppObjModel

Module System component: MVC model

Parent: SplunkRESTModel

Mechanism: Subclass to hook your model into the framework

Usage: Overriding existing methods is not recommended; If you need to override the initialize() constructor, call the parent constructor using $super() first to ensure the parent is initialized; add additional model-specific methods

lib.html

Module System component: MVC view (template)

Mechanism: Dynamic binding

Usage: Import; way to include Import custom/3rd party JavaScript and CSS

Splunk.Module

Module System component: module

Parent: object

Mechanism: Subclass using module name

Usage: Override methods

Most common methods to override:

applyContext()
getModifiedContext()
getResultParams()
getResultsCompleteHandler()
getResultsErrorHandler()
initialize()
isReadyForContextPush()
onBeforeJobDispatched()
onContextChange()
onLoadStatusChange()
onResultsRendered()
onViewDataChange()
renderResults()
requiresAsynchonousLoading()
requiresDispatch()
resetUI()

Splunk.Module.DispatchingModule

Module System component: module

Parent: Splunk.Module

Mechanism: Subclass using module name

Usage: Override methods

Most common methods to override:
onJobDone()
onJobProgress()
onJobStatusChange()
requiresTransformedResults()

module.ModuleHandler

Module System component: module controller

Parent: object

Mechanism: Subclass using module name

Usage: Override methods

Most common methods to override:

generateResults()

application.js

Module System component: module

Mechanism: Dynamic binding

Usage: Override with custom JavaScript

Last modified on 12 August, 2019
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.0.9, 7.0.10, 7.0.11, 7.0.13, 7.1.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, 7.1.5, 7.1.6, 7.1.7, 7.1.8, 7.1.9, 7.1.10, 7.2.0, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.6, 7.2.7, 7.2.8, 7.2.9, 7.2.10, 7.3.0, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.3.3, 7.3.4, 7.3.5, 7.3.6, 7.3.7, 7.3.8, 7.3.9


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