Thanks for the suggestion...
Just to confirm, is there no way in Mason to make a component call that
explicitly targets a specific component root?
On 3/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
one solution is to add a third comp root, that is one level up from the
fallback.
mason/asite/
mason/fallback/
mason/
then mason/asite/footer.mas can <& /fallback/footer.mas &>, and even
<%flags>inherit => /fallback/footer.mas<%/flags>
if you are uncomfortable with exposing <& /asite/foo &> from mason/bsite/,
you can get a similar effect by including a redundant directory in the
disk path to fallback, and using three comp roots like:
mason/asite/
mason/fallback/fallback/
mason/fallback/
> Hi,
>
> I have multiple component roots (two) for my sites. One is a
> site-specific
> root and one is a "fallback" root that provides default components if
the
> site-specific root hasn't "overridden" them.
>
> For example, /footer.mas (in the fallback comp root) and /footer.mas (in
> the
> site-specific comp root).
>
> This works great if (a) the site doesn't have its own footer.mas defined
> (Mason uses the fallback one instead), and (b) the site has its own
> footer.mas that REPLACES the fallback footer (Mason uses the
site-specific
> one and the fallback is never called).
>
> However, I also want to support scenario (c) where the site has its own
> footer.mas that SUPPLEMENTS the fallback one. For example, I have some
> site-specific stuff that I want to include (using the site's footer.mas)
> in
> addition to the fallback's footer.mas.
>
> To avoid circular references, then, I need a way to call the fallback's
> footer.mas from within the site-specific footer.mas. Wondering if
there's
> a
> clean way to do this. Something like:
>
> page.html:
> ---
> <& /header.mas &>
> ... content ...
> <& /footer.mas &>
> ---
>
> footer.mas:
> ---
> ... site-specific stuff ...
> <& /footer.mas &> (here is where I want to say "use the fallback's
> footer.mas")
> ---
>
>
> Right now I'm working around case (c) by moving the site-specific
> footer.masto another folder:
>
> page.html:
> ---
> <& /header.mas &>
> ... content ...
> <& /site/footer.mas &> (different path entirely to avoid the circular
> ref)
>
> (with the site-specific footer.mas the same as above).
>
> But, I'd rather not have to change my dozens of include paths if/when I
> decide to "override" one of the fallback components.
>
> (Note I'm just using header/footer includes as an example... I have lots
> of
> generic components that I occassionally want to override or augment
using
> the above technique.)
>
> Thanks!
>
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