Also strongly +1 on coming up with more sane URLs than the default ones Wicket generates. Good URLs can provide vital context clues to users about where they are in an application, and how the various pieces fit together.
Chris On Jun 29, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Mike Pumphrey wrote: > Very +1 on whatever it takes to getting nicer URLs into GeoServer. > > I'll chime back in when we have the discussion on what exactly these > pretty URLs should be. :) > > Thanks, > Mike Pumphrey > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > > > David Winslow wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Some of us at OpenGeo have been lamenting the overly long/verbose >> URLs >> produced by Wicket. Wicket provides a concept of 'mounting' pages at >> particular URLs, which we could use to clean them up a bit. I've put >> together a small patch (attached) that uses the title i18n key for >> menu >> pages as the mounted path as a small example (note this is just a >> sort >> of proof-of-concept, I am NOT proposing that we uses the title >> keys. I >> am really NOT proposing that we i18n-ize the URLs.) >> >> I'd like to add a 'prettyPath' or 'shortPath' field to MenuPageInfo >> to >> allow those context items to provide a nice URL for the pages they >> describe. We could leave it optional to avoid requiring a 'big-bang' >> migration, but in the long run I'm not sure whether it should be >> mandatory or not. >> >> Another question I have is whether we should extend this support to >> other types of contributed pages (demo links?) >> >> Thoughts? >> >> -- >> David Winslow >> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geoserver-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
