At 14:19 2000-12-19, Santiago Gala wrote:


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> >
> > ingo schuster wrote:
> > >
> > > Sorry, the customizer itself is NOT broken, but it seems to have problems
> > > with portlets that use external URLs and can't get through the firewall
> > > (may be just a very high time out). I'll investigate further.
> > >
> >
> > The customizer tries to instanciate all the portlets, which in turn try
> > to connect to the remote URL and wait for a network timeout.
> >
>
>We should avoid having to call getPortlet() just to customise. I think
>the way would be to move MIME support to the class level (static). So,
>we would assume that all instances of a given class portlet would have
>the same Mime types supported. This is tricky for static file portlets,
>where the supported MIME types would depend on content types of
>different resources.

Wouldn't it be better to have a mandatory parameter in the portlet registry 
that defines all MIME types that the portlet is capable of?

>This does not look easy, but it is important, since a site could have
>10s of thousands of channels, and the logical way to customise would be
>to search using keywords on the meta info of the channel, rather than
>instantiate it until it is needed for display.
>
>Other thing. I think that portlets that give an exception during display
>should not "disappear", but rather to have a configurable content. In
>the case of RSSPortlet it could be a virtual error channel, containing
>the error info. Something like "The channel "url" is temporarily
>unavailable. Please consult..."
>
>It would be better that having broken portlets disappearing from the
>display. IMHO, at least. Obviously, I think this for 1.3a2, not for a1.
>What do you think?

I agree, portlets shouldn't dissapear without any message.

> > Best way is to configure your test server to have internet access by using
> > the proxy settings in your JVM.
> >
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