I've handled it differently for Prudence: I create static unified/minifed files on-the-fly to be served via a Directory. If you request "all.min.js", all .js files in that directory are unified (in alphabetical order) and minifed. The filter can detect if any of the source files has been updated, and the interval between such tests can be configured.
This seems to me the best way to go because the case for serving static files has already been optimized. (Other static web servers/CDNs can easily be used instead of Restlet's Directory.) See the code in JavaScriptUnifyMinifyFilter (LGPL): http://code.google.com/p/prudence/source/browse/#svn/trunk/java/com.threecrickets.prudence/src/com/threecrickets/prudence/util%3Fstate%3Dclosed There's also a similar class for CSS. (There might be an issue with method and concurrent file locking on certain operating systems -- haven't done a lot of testing yet, but I'm sure that case would be easy to fix.) -Tal On 07/28/2010 05:27 PM, Tim Peierls wrote: > I wrote a Restlet Filter to minify application/x-javascript resources > in afterHandle (using JSMin now, but I'll probably switch to YUI > Compressor). > > But is that all I can do with it? It feels as though this should be > plugged into the TunnelService, with ways to take requests for > foo.min.js, say, and return a minified foo.js, with caching and all > those goodies, yet still return plain, unminified foo.js when it's > requested. > > Feels like this must have been done already, but I can't find > anything. Pointers? Advice? > > --tim > ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2639913
