[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-1898?page=comments#action_12432339 ] Simone Gianni commented on COCOON-1898: ---------------------------------------
Sorry to jump on this issue so late, but I also was in the need for a patching mechanism for web.xml and other files, and came up with another solution, mainly because i don't like XPatch that much (had to fight with it a lot in the past). I aldready developed and I'm using internally the mvn plugin for it, it works using a src/main/xpatch folder, containing the patch files, so for example to patch the web xml you create a file src/main/xpatch/WEB-INF/web.xml-adding-filter.xml. My xml patching syntax is by far simpler than xpatch, for example to add a filter in the web.xml you just have to write a file like this : <web-app xmlns:xp="http://xpatch/1.0";> <filter/> <!-- With this you are telling it to find the first <filter/> entry --> <filter xp:do="add"> <!-- With this you are telling it to add this node and its children --> <filter-name>MyFilter</filter-name> <display-name>My filter</display-name> <filter-class>....</filter-class> <init-param> <param-name>param</param-name> <param-value>value</param-value> </init-param> </filter> <filter-mapping/> <filter-mapping xp:do="add"> <filter-name>MyFilter</filter-name> <servlet-name>Cocoon</servlet-name> </filter-mapping> </web-app> For many other tasks it's even simpler, for example to add a new match on the root sitemap, this is enought : <map:sitemap xmlns:map="http://apache.org/cocoon/sitemap/1.0";> <map:pipelines> <map:pipeline> <map:match pattern="_mystuff/**"> <map:mount src="mystuff/" uri-prefix="_mystuff"/> </map:match> </map:pipeline> </map:pipelines> </map:sitemap> and the new match will be added as the last element of the first encountered pipeline. I'm planning to contribute this anyway, so let me know if it could be a good alternative. > [PATCH] XPatch support for maven-cocoon-deployer-plugin > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: COCOON-1898 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-1898 > Project: Cocoon > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: - Build System: Maven > Affects Versions: 2.2-dev (Current SVN) > Reporter: Lars Trieloff > Attachments: maven-cocoon-deployer-plugin-with-xpatch-support.patch > > > The cocoon-deployer-plugin has currently no support for XPatch, which makes > it difficult to modify the web.xml when developing cocoon blocks. For example > the cocoon-xmldb-impl block should add, when deployed, a servlet for xindice > and a servlet mapping for the xindice servlet. This was possible in 2.1 using > the XConfToolTask, but is no longer possible with the current state of the > deployer-plugin. > My patch adds support for patching the web.xml file using *.xweb files in the > /conf directory of a block by filtering the block's jar file during > deployment for conf/*.xweb files, caching the patch document temporarily and > applying them (using code from the orgiginal XConfToolTask in 2.1) to the > web.xml. The patch has currently no support for other files than conf/*.xweb > files and does not support any property expansion. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
