Sven Kuenzler wrote:
> Good question. ATM, I only could give artificial scenarios.
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> The real use case I had in mind was the application where I used the
> Serializer out of Cocoon. This application produces an Excel sheet
> which is sent out by Email. So it is not direct a response but a "side
> effect" to the request. In C2 this is called a "sink" (or will be).
Okay I got that part...but it sounds kind of like an action to me.
> If I wanted to port that app to Cocoon, I thought of using a
> Transformer. Then again, probalby I would not really need a
> WriteableSource for that. IIRC, there is a Transformer which could
> take a Serializer to produce the Excel output.
Okay so the issue is that you have *two* outputs of sort. One is to
email, one is to the browser. The Excel is to email and probably HTML
to the browser.
In my mind this doesn't justify *breaking* the logical model of the
sitemap. It seems you need an Action that makes a seperate internal
request of sorts and emails the output. So the action would make a
request to a different pipeline and email that, where the user response
would be in HTML.
Does that not sound reasonable? Any thoughts from you Vadim?
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>> Explain, elaborate.
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>> 2 Why would you want to do it at the transformation point?
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>>> Something that just came to me thinking of the dicussion about an
>>> ExcelGenerator: What about implementing it as (Writeable)Source
>>> instead? That way you could use it with SourceWritingTransformer and
>>> friends, not only as pipeline starting point.
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