This is both a comment and a question. I'd like to be able to have a Menu
with a Loc pointing at "/help/". By using the strPairToLink method on the
Loc object, I can use it as both an entry into the help system. This allows
me to effectively bring up "/help/index" due to Lift converting trailing
slashes to "/index", and I can use the boolean parameter to allow access to
all files under the help subdirectory. In order to make this work, though, I
need to define the menu like:
val helpMenu = Menu(Loc("HelpHome", ("help" :: "" :: Nil) -> true, "Help"))
Note the empty string as part of the path definition. If I omit this, then
files under the help subdirectory are accessible, but the link generated by
Menu.builder is "/help". Because it omits the trailing slash it seems that
Lift tries to open the directory as a template XML file and I get an
internal server error (500, stack trace at the end of the email). My
question is whether this is the intended way of doing what I want, or if
I've missed some other way to define this in a single Menu entry (yes, I
could do two, with one hidden). With a server like apache, if I request a
directory without the trailing slash it will respond with a 301 redirect to
the same URL, but with a trailing slash. Should Lift be modified to follow
this behavior?
One more related issue is that even if I define my Menu as I've shown above,
if I try to use "/help" in the URL without the trailing slash, I get a
directory listing instead of the index.html, which I would expect.
I'm not sure if this is all under Lift's purview or if some of it should be
handled by chaining in the filter.
Derek
PS - Here's the stack trace if I omit the fake "slash":
ERROR - Exception being returned to browser when processing Req(List(),
Map(), ParsePath(List(help),,true,false), , GetRequest, null)
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: line 1 does not exist
at scala.io.Source.getLine(Source.scala:280)
at scala.io.Source.report(Source.scala:368)
at scala.io.Source.reportError(Source.scala:355)
at scala.io.Source.reportError(Source.scala:344)
at
scala.xml.parsing.MarkupParser$class.reportSyntaxError(MarkupParser.scala:1113)
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