Threads collide .. lets continue the discussion on Radu’s thread "[discussion] 
allow Script Engines to also render components based on paths“

Regards
Felix

> Am 23.01.2015 um 11:19 schrieb Felix Meschberger <[email protected]>:
> 
> Hi
> 
> So we have a problem in that two script engines are using the same 
> script/template extension ?
> 
> I think we cannot handle this with a mechanism such as SLING-4330. I also 
> think that script engines should not limit themselves in where they would 
> like to be evaluated. That’s none of their business. They get a script and 
> they should (try to) evaluate it. It is the ScriptResolver’s task to decide 
> whether to evaluate a script or not given that it has a certain location.
> 
> Now, the deeper problem really is that the ScriptEngine infrastructure is not 
> intended to support two different script languages with the same extension. 
> Also the intent of a script extension is to indicate the language the script 
> is written in.
> 
> Also, the ScriptEngineManager as we use it today is *not* able to register 
> multiple script engines for the same extension — its always one or the other 
> — unfortunately its the last one registered that wins.
> 
> So we really have to fix the underlying problem (and needless to say, that I 
> really don’t like using the extension „html“ for a script/template…) and 
> maybe change the extension of one or the other scripting language if they 
> should be used concurrently on the same instance.
> 
> Regards
> Felix
> 
>> Am 19.01.2015 um 11:40 schrieb Oliver Lietz (JIRA) <[email protected]>:
>> 
>> 
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>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-4330?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14282371#comment-14282371
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>> 
>> Oliver Lietz commented on SLING-4330:
>> -------------------------------------
>> 
>> bq. Do I understand it correctly, that you propose to limit a ScriptEngine 
>> to only handle scripts found at a certain location ?
>> 
>> Yes. I'm bringing an application to AEM 6 where different teams from 
>> different companies work on the HTML templating in a round-trip manner. I 
>> had to disable Sightly on AEM 6 as it always kicks in for scripts/templates 
>> with extension {{.html}} and fails. This seems not to be a problem right now 
>> as Classic UI is used for authoring and administration and JSPs besides 
>> Thymeleaf for templating, but could (_will_) be a problem in the future of 
>> course. Ideally I can configure Sightly to only handle scripts e.g. in 
>> {{/libs/foundation}} and {{/apps/client/app2}}.
>> 
>>> provide a configuration parameter for paths patterns Sightly should handle
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>>               Key: SLING-4330
>>>               URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-4330
>>>           Project: Sling
>>>        Issue Type: New Feature
>>>        Components: Scripting
>>>  Affects Versions: Scripting Sightly Engine 1.0.0
>>>          Reporter: Oliver Lietz
>>> 
>>> Running multiple script engines for same script (template) extension should 
>>> be possible.
>>> Scripting Thymeleaf already provides that parameter, see 
>>> {{org.apache.sling.scripting.thymeleaf.SlingTemplateModeHandler#getPatternSpec():org.thymeleaf.PatternSpec}}.
>> 
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