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Murray Altheim wrote on jspwiki-users:
I seem to remember there was a recent question on obtaining an instance
of a JSPWikiMarkupParser, and now that I'm trying to do exactly that it
seems there isn't any way to do so...
There's only one constructor for the class and that requires a
WikiContext, which throws an IllegalArgumentException if either the
WikiEngine or HttpServletRequest are null, which seems like an
insurmountable barrier. It seems like there a number of places where
one would hit an NPE on reference to a null m_engine. What to do in
those cases where the WikiEngine seems necessary is of course unknown.
Anyone been able to create a parser without a WikiEngine or HTTP
server? I am running this as an embedded application but I'd like
access to a parser when neither the WikiEngine nor Jetty are active.
Another alternative would be to create a dummy WikiEngine outside of
the context of Jetty.
Janne Jalkanen replied:
Yes, you must create a WikiEngine. However a dummy one is completely
fine. This is a dependency that we should probably get rid of in 3.0
timeframe anyway.
I would recommend using the RenderingManager interfaces instead of using
the MarkupParser directly, but that's more or less a matter of taste.
[...]
You can have multiple WikiEngines, no worries. You probably want to be
careful a bit on the configuration you pass to the WikiEngine.
Okay, I've gone through the exercise of creating a partial installation
that only includes a few bits and pieces, where the properties file is
written by the parent application. As might be expected in this process
I keep hitting exceptions and then resolving them, with the WikiEngine
asking for more and more...
Now it wants web.xml. How unreasonable! (and where to put it? It isn't
found in a 'WEB-INF' directory for some reason). I just want a standalone
JSPWikiMarkupParser, not the whole servlet framework. Has anyone actually
created a JSPWikiMarkupParser without the rest? or at least only a
WikiEngine? I'm kinda wondering what the minimal setup is when one doesn't
need any pages, any templates, any logs, anything except a parser...
Murray
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