Thanks! Is this change included in the new Restlet 1.1.0 release?
- Lu -----Original Message----- From: Thierry Boileau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 2:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: serving static files from servlet WAR with Directory class: index.html not served automatically Hello Luis, we have reconsidered the question. The WAR client connector supports the content negotiation feature. The fix is available in the svn repository and in the last snapshot. Best regards, Thierry Boileau -- Restlet ~ Core developer ~ http://www.restlet.org Noelios Technologies ~ Co-founder ~ http://www.noelios.com -----Original Message----- Hello Luis, Just to satisfy my curiosity, would you mind answering these questions for me? Of source not! 1. Why does content negotiation have to be disabled for this to work? In order to anwser exactly to your question, I've just made a test, and it is not necessary to turn off the content negotiation at the level of the directory. However, I would like to add a few words. Our implementation of the content negotiation relies on the ability to look for the entire list of files that share the same base name (e.g. {"index.html.en", "index.txt", etc} when "index.html" is requested). Thus, you can confront the client preferences and the listed files in order to find the "best" representation of the resource. This is possible when you are relying on a directory (something pointed by "file:///"), but WAR files does not provide easy and sure way to look for the content of a "directory" inside a WAR file. Thus, we decided to make such low level connectors unable to support content negotiation. If you want a file in a war, you need to provide its exact path and name. In your case, you wanted to get the index file when requesting for a directory. Therefore, we can play with the "index" property of Directory Restlet and give it the exact name of your index files. 2. Are there any other side-effects due to disabling content negotiation? Disabling content negotiation should have as only consequence to let the client request for the exact URI of the resource. 3. What is the difference between "/doc" and "/doc/" in the URI template parsing logic? Good question. This point was the main cause of your problem. If you request for "http://abc.com.mywar/doc"; though your application is routed to "http://abc.com.mywar/doc/";, the routing logic can not infer that you are actually looking for a "directory" identified "http://abc.com.mywar/doc/";. Actually, "/doc" and "/doc/" are not equivalent. The latter clearly identifies the root of a hierarchy, in your case, a directory. But "/doc" does not. It can be a resource. Having said that, our implementation of the Directory Restlet is able to know if you are really requesting the "doc" directory. If the target Uri does not end with a "/", it asks the client to make another request to the "/doc/" URI. You can try to request "http://www.restlet.org/documentation/1.1";, you will see that you are redirected to "http://www.restlet.org/documentation/1.1/"; I hope I answer to your questions. Best regards, Thierry Boileau -- Restlet ~ Core developer ~ http://www.restlet.org Noelios Technologies ~ Co-founder ~ http://www.noelios.com Thanks again, - Lu -----Original Message----- From: Thierry Boileau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 2:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: serving static files from servlet WAR with Directory class: index.html not served automatically Hi Luis, it should work if you attach the directory like this (please note the removes trailing "/"): Directory docsDir = new Directory(getContext(), "war:///doc"); docsDir.setNegotiateContent(false); docsDir.setIndexName("index.html"); router.attach("/doc", docsDir); Best regards, Thierry Boileau -- Restlet ~ Core developer ~ http://www.restlet.org Noelios Technologies ~ Co-founder ~ http://www.noelios.com -----Original Message----- Hi Jerome, Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it, but unfortunately that didn't work either. The explicit URL still works, but the index file is still not served when you access the parent URL. Let me know if you have any other ideas or if you think this is due to a bug. Thanks again! - Lu -----Original Message----- From: Jerome Louvel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 2:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: serving static files from servlet WAR with Directory class: index.html not served automatically Hi Luis, This is due to the fact that directory listing isn't possible with the war:// client connector, as opposed to the file:// client. However, could you try this: // expose static API docs Directory docsDir = new Directory(getContext(), "war:///doc"); docsDir.setNegotiateContent(false); docsDir.setIndexName("index.html"); router.attach("/doc/", docsDir); Let us know if this doesn't solve your issue and we'll look at the code. Best regards, Jérôme Louvel PS: No problem for the HTML mail, I think most people can read them fine. -- Restlet ~ Founder and Lead developer ~ http://www.restlet.org Noelios Technologies ~ Co-founder ~ http://www.noelios.com -----Message d'origine----- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mercredi 8 octobre 2008 01:25 À : [email protected] Objet : serving static files from servlet WAR with Directory class: index.html not served automatically (Apologies for my previous non-text email; trying again.) Im using restlet 1.1-RC2 with the ServerServlet extension on Oracle AS 10.1.3 with the web.xml configuration method. I was able to successfully serve static files (included in the 'webapp/doc' directory within the WAR) using an instance of the Directory class, as follows: // expose static API docs Directory docsDir = new Directory(getContext(), "war:///doc"); router.attach("/doc/", docsDir); My problem, however, is that the 'index.html' file within the 'webapp/doc' folder is not served automatically by the NRE when I use the following URL (instead the server returns 404): http://abc.com/mywar/doc But it does work when I use the following explicit URL: http://abc.com/mywar/doc/index.html Is there a configuration that needs to be set so that the Directory class will return the index file when a parent URL is accessed? Using log output, I have verified that Directory.getIndexName() does in fact return "index". Does anyone have a solution? Thanks, - Lu
