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Bob Schellink commented on CLK-665:
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Agreed on ResourceService. Even if it did work, it will cache the templates and
so will Velocity leading to duplicated storage.
Having thought about this a bit I don't think packaging classes and template
together is very useful. I also don't know how to document and explain the pros
of this approach to users as I think packaging templates under the 'web' folder
is superior. The current behavior is both predictable (url to template maps 1
to 1), easily customizable and well documented.
That said I do think it should be easier to change the template location path
to support this use case if users really want it.
On a related note, we have an issue on GAE (CLK-639) where it does not allow
scanning of the 'web' folders for templates. Thus Click doesn't work on GAE in
production modes. Ideally this can be solved by leveraging a 'lazy' design
where templates are only looked up when accessed the first time. In such a
scenario we should be able to cater for custom template locations, such as
looking it up from the classpath.
ConfigService:
public String lookupTemplateFromUrl(String url);
Would this be useful to you?
> Click Page Templates in class path (in addition to webRoot [sub- ]folders)
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>
> Key: CLK-665
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLK-665
> Project: Click
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: core
> Affects Versions: 2.2.0, 2.1.0
> Reporter: Andrey Rybin
>
> I have a large web application composed from several independent modules
> packaged as separate .jar files in WEB-INF/lib.
> Now Click force me to copy all my .htm files (Page Templates) to 'main'
> module's webRoot folder (parent folder of WEB-INF), because Click look for
> templates only in webRoot folder and its subfolders (see
> XmlConfigService.getTemplateFiles), and then I have big htm midden in webRoot.
> I can't make reusable just-drop-in jar-module for somebody else.
> I have to make separate zip with htm templates with readme.txt with
> instructions where to copy them.
> Please! Add option to look Page templates in classpath too.
> See -
> http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.0.x/reference/resources.html#resources-app-ctx-wildcards-in-resource-paths
> -
> how I use Spring for building these separate jar with separate spring's xmls
> into one application.
> See also excellent article about this modular concept:
> http://blogs.reucon.com/srt/2007/07/06/modular_spring_configuration.html
> I.e. Click could look in (for example) META-INF/ClickPageTemplates for Page
> mappings.
> Then both Velocity and Freemarker can load templates from classpath.
> PS: It looks like hand-made-OSGi.
> PPS: See also
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLK-622 (~reversed situation: we have
> .htm, but don't have class).
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