Re: Repository block and C2.2

[Robin Wyles]

Hi Grzegorz,

On 2 Jan 2008, at 15:15, Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote:

Robin Wyles pisze:

Hi,

Hi Robin,

I would like to use the Repository block with C2.2, but I see from the Cocoon site that it is not yet ready for release. I'd be happy to have a go at updating this block for use with C2.2 if someone could tell me the

following...

Although I haven't used repository myself but I will try to help you a bit.

Neither have I yet, so I'm sure this will get me well acquainted with it!

1. Is this welcome/necessary?

Of course it is welcomed.

2. What do I need to do to get this block ready for release?

don't know much about repository block so you might check it.

Main requirement for any release is to have no dependencies on a snapshot versions on artifacts. I

cocoon-core
cocoon-eventcache-impl
excalibur-datasource
servlet-api

Looking at the pom I don't see any version numbers, but the dependencies seem to be:

For a first milestone release I don't think expectations should be set high so I think it's enough

to set up some minimal docs and have some code working. :)

No problem.

coverage by tests.

For final I would like to see some samples (repository block lacks any) and at least minimal

Me too, after going through your points below my plan is to write initial tests for SourceRepository to test all repository operations using a local file:// based repository. Ultimately I would like to see this block springified (sprung?) too - I envisage us creating our own Repository implementations and would much prefer to do this using Spring.

3. Any documentation on upgrading blocks to C2.2?

a process that itself is rather non-trivial.

I fear there is nothing like that but this is caused mainly because trunk has been changing many times until it stabilized now. Moreover, it is quite hard to provide general enough documentation of I don't want you to get an impression that you are aiming at a dead- complicated task...

No problem, as I said before we expect to be making use of this block, it will all be useful...

only few issues:

should look like.

Ok, enough of excuse. I just have taken a quick look at repository block and it seems that there are a) there are no configuration files of sitemap components provided by repository block. In a C2.2 advised method is to configure them *outside* the sitemap. See this [1] file to get an idea how it

No problem.

b) there is old file containing configuration of caching source. This source has been refactored and

moved to the core so this configuration is not needed anymore.

No problem.

get them running then try to run rest of components.

I think that the best strategy would be to create configuration of sitemap components in order to

Will do this and set up some tests for these components - I'm still figuring out how some of the other components in this block are used and so how they can be tested.

but having even few samples would be highly appreciated.

I guess it's not that much work left in order to prepare first milestone release of repository block

Thanks,

Robin

I'll report back after I've taken a look at the above and will hopefully have an idea of what the samples could contain.

[1]

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/trunk/core/cocoon-core/src/ main/resources/META-INF/cocoon/avalon/cocoon-core- sitemapcomponents.xconf

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