Hi all, after an extended rewrite of the dispatcher I am happy to say that my first tests are all passing now.
The upgrade steps for custom dispatcher projects are straightforward: 1) Renaming extension of the contracts from *.ft to *.contracts.xml demonstrated with http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=rev&rev=701113 2) Renaming elements from view to structurer demonstrated with http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=rev&rev=701117 3) Renaming structurer file and adding new extension demonstrated with http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=rev&rev=701325 4) The path of the defaultVariables has changed a bit. Removing one level demonstrated with http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=rev&rev=703149 5) [optional] Renaming extensions for contracts and structurer in properties files. demonstrated with http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=rev&rev=701119 Step 5 is optional since in the normal use case one is using the default configuration. However our fresh site sadly added the "dispatcher.theme-ext" property. Just do: - <property name="dispatcher.theme-ext" value=".fv"/> On my todo list still are two open points: 1) Merge the cocoon-2.2 block dispatcher into the current plugin. This needs extending the normal build of plugins since cocoon 2.2 needs additional files in the resulting jar. 2) Small document of the new features and how we can use them. I hope to finish this point within the next days. Since I have done the whole work in a branch I need to merge it ASAP. I suspect that the merge will not be fully conflict free since there has been some commits to the trunk of contracts that are not in the branch. Before I merge I like to ask all dispatcher user to test the new code. Preparation for testing: cd $FORREST_HOME/whiteboard svn switch https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/branches/dispatcher_rewrite . Now you can test a fresh seed which should work without any problem. If you try to use your custom dispatcher that you may have make sure you followed above upgrade instructions. What are the additional steps you needed to do to update your custom dispatcher project to the new version? Is it working for you? TIA for any feedback. salu2 -- Thorsten Scherler thorsten.at.apache.org Open Source Java consulting, training and solutions
