On 9/11/07, Brian Pontarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > * Would it be possible to support ReST-style parameters (which I
> > believe are also SEO-preferred), so that
> > "hello-world/save?message=Howdy" could be expressed
> > "hello-world/save/message/Howdy".
> >
> We could give it a shot. This is more of an ActionMapper concept than a
> smart URLs constraint. We could make a SmartURLs mapper that handles those.
The Rest action mappers already handle this, so it would be worth
taking a look how they do it.
>
> > ** Something like "hello-world/save/+/message/Howdy" might work as
> > well, if including a parameter-start flag would simplify the code. (It
> > might simplify things for the developer too!)
> >
> Might. I've never made a mapper, so I would need to try before I knew
> exactly how easy or hard it was. I would imagine that a separator would
> simplify things a lot though.
Yeah, take a look at the rest mappers. I'd rather not use something
like a separation character. If rails can do it in a nice clean way,
so can we.
> > * Should we look for .html after .jsp, .ftl, .vm? Is the extension
> > list configurable?
> >
> This isn't currently configurable because it requires knowing the result
> type that handles the specific extension. e.g. the FreeMarkerResult
> handles *.ftl. We could have a JSON style configuration for it though:
>
> {'ftl': 'freemarker', 'vm': 'velocity', ...}
>
> I'd be up for that. OGNL would also work since it is the Struts standard
> for that kinda thing. We could just send the value to OGNL and get the
> Map<String, String> back.
This could be extendable actually by other plugins. Take a look how
template engines are loaded. The manager class gets the Container
injected, then it looks for all implementations of a given interface,
using the alias as the implementation name.
Don
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