On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:37:05 -0600, Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 1:23 PM -0800 3/24/05, Don Brown wrote:
I've kept an eye on this thread as stxx uses a similar integration strategy as Tiles. I considered using the Velocity approach, but decided it wasn't ideal as it exposed paths to client that didn't need to be exposed. I like the strategy of hiding alternate view processing within Struts as, again, it keeps those special urls hidden and secure. I use this approach for both Tiles and the Cocoon plugin.
I see your point, but I still think needing to explicitly configure the TilesPreProcessor for two different view contexts is a hack. It has the bad-code smell that makes me think that we need to re-engineer something -- even if I don't know what.
Perhaps what we need is the concept of a "path resolver" that takes a virtual path and turns it into a real path. The default would be passthrough, but it would be pluggable in some way so that Tiles (or stxx or whatever) could register with it and be given a chance to resolve, for example, a tile name to a real path. Then we just make sure that anywhere we're about to do a forward (or an include), we invoke the path resolver first.
Does that make any sense?
I like where this is going...I would rather call it a "path handler". The role of this path handler would be to completely process the path, most likely returning output back to the user. The default handler could do a dispatch like it does now, but anyone could create their own, say, a PDF handler. I kinda have this built into stxx to allow completely control, in our case, of how the XML is used to generate output. I have used a PDF handler, XSLT, Velocity, SVG, and Cocoon at different times. Basically this "path handler" would to the view that the Action is to the controller, but more generic.
Don
-- Martin Cooper
If you put your .tiles paths all under /WEB-INF/ then wouldn't you achieve the same kind of protection that people who put JSPs there do? It seems like that should work, although that's pure speculation.
Joe
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