Scott Gray-2 wrote: > > What about adding something like the following to ofbiz-component.xml > schema > <extend-web-app name="order" > include-controller="path/to/controller.xml" > /> > > This would basically be similar to the "include" element available in the > controller schema except that it would override any elements in the > web-app's normal controller. > > Doing this would allow us to externally override any requests and views in > a base application's controller without needing to completely replace the > existing webapp and could be a good starting point for building "plug-in" > support. > > Say for example you simply want to make a few changes to the EditProduct > screen, you could just override the view-mapping to point to a screen in > your custom component and boom, you're done. >
I really like the concept. Building on this, two variances for your consideration came to mind ... <request-map webapp-name="partymgr" uri="EditParty"> ... <view-map webapp-name="partymgr" name="EditParty" type="view" ... OR a new element ... <controller-override webapp="partymgr"> [standard request & view maps elements] </ ... This came from a perceived desire to be more granular in what I override in another application. The other is to be able to separate out my "overrides" from my standard controller. ie. I could see having a controller.xml and a controller-override.xml (where controller.xml includes override). The other thought is maybe consider a "global" definition -- I believe services does there service definitions are in general global, but the infrastructure is in place to have a local set of services (I think it keeps two maps and looks in "local" for your dispatcher first). If memory services, there are not examples of this usage in OOB Ofbiz mind you. Naturally name collisions become a real consideration with this type of thing ... PS. You can see I used "override" instead of "extend" because it seem more clear to me what it was doing. -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Controller-Injection-tp2076418p2076487.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
