Hi Eduard, AFAIK, Vincent is actively working on a fix that will allow to fix this and support more URL mappings. You should see with him about his work in progress. Regards,
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Currently, the webjars URL mapping is the following: > > http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/webjars/resources/path?value= > <id>%2F<version>%2F<filePath> > > Example: > $services.webjars.url('codemirror', 'lib/codemirror.js') > returns > > http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/webjars/resources/path?value=codemirror%2F5.1/lib/codemirror.js > > The problem with this is that require modules that use relative paths for > their dependencies are broken because of the URL mapping we use, more > specifically by the "?" character inside the URL we use. > > A concrete example is the CodeMirror webjar that defines its own modules > which express their dependencies relatively: "../../lib/codemirror" > > Here we have a problem, since if we directly depend on > "$services.webjars.url('codemirror', 'mode/css/css.js')", the module will > fail to find its relatively defined dependency. > > One approach would be to define paths, so that requirejs can work its > magic: > > require.config({ > paths: { > cm : " > > http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/webjars/resources/path?value=codemirror%2F5.1 > " > } > }); > > require(["cm/lib/codemirror", "cm/mode/css/css"], function (CodeMirror) { > console.log(CodeMirror); > }); > > This properly finds "/lib/codemirror.js" and "mode/css/css.js" that we > explicitly request, however, the internal dependency of css.js fails to be > found at the resolved URL " > > http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/webjars/resources/path?value=codemirror%2F5.1/lib/codemirror > ". > > Requirejs does not add the ".js" extension to the resolved path because the > resolved path contains a "?" character so it is considered an absolute URL, > not a relative path. > > The proposal is to stop using this URL mapping, since it is awkward to have > paths in parameters and, instead, use a more intuitive one that is both > good for clients and for requirejs. > > The proposed mapping/scheme is: > > http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/webjars/<id>/<version>/<filePath> > > Any additional parameters that we might need for the webjars action would > be appended at the end. There is currently 1 case that I know of, which is > "evaluate=true|false". > > Without this change, I can not find any solution to using a webjar such as > CodeMirror that uses relative defined modules. > > Thanks, > Eduard > > P.S.: Any additional advice on using requirejs to circumvent this > limitation is most than welcomed. > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
