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Wolfgang Habicht commented on MAGNOLIA-2343:
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We also use selectors a lot in our projects.
I see still some more problems replacing selectors with URI mappings:
- assume the case having selectors and optional URL parameters: is this
possible with a regexp? (you need to add ?selector=... or &selector=...)
[Alternatively a new VirtualURIMapping class could be written...]
- to remove them internally might work - however I do not see any advantage
(see below)
- removing selectors also in URLs is much more than just search/replace; there
could be also some string operations concatenating URL-parts; potentially also
in Java Script.
The question whether to remove selectors came from the idea to allow dots in
(only some?) node names. I didn't get the advantage of removing selectors in
the proposed way to achieve dots in names; they still exist in the URI - and
are "only" removed during processing.
If you remove them from the URI (as sent by the client) too, you run into
caching problems.
If you have really good reasons to remove selectors, please do not do it in a
major release (i.e. Magnolia 4.0) as in my opinion this is a major change.
(off topic: to achieve dots in user names why not escape/encode the dot
character for transmission? Such an URL may not be nicely readable, however the
basic problem is solved. It is up to an admin if he will be using dots.)
> Selectors can be deprecated, virtual uri mappings can do a better job
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> Key: MAGNOLIA-2343
> URL: http://jira.magnolia.info/browse/MAGNOLIA-2343
> Project: Magnolia
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: core, templating
> Reporter: Gregory Joseph
> Assignee: Gregory Joseph
> Fix For: 3.6.2
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> Attachments: Picture 1.png
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