Allow splitting of controller.xml
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Key: OFBIZ-370
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-370
Project: OFBiz (The Open for Business Project)
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: framework
Affects Versions: SVN trunk
Environment: Linux, java-sun-1.5
Reporter: Peter Goron
Priority: Minor
Attachments: site-conf-include.patch
Controller.xml files become bigger and bigger and are complex to read. That
made a long time I was looking for a way to split these files and I finally
digged into ofbiz code to see how it can be implemented.
What a surprise to see that this feature is already present in Ofbiz but is not
activated !
You can test to insert <include file="another-controller.xml"/> in an existing
controller.xml. You should see a validation error because include element is
not declared in xsd but it does not prevent inclusion mechanism to run.
However there is good chance you also obtain an exception report because it
doesn't find the file you try to include. To be consistent with other places in
ofbiz, I've slightly modified inclusion mechanism to use FlexibleResolver (see
attached patch, ex: <include
location="component://component/webapp/component/WEB-INF/another-controller.xml"/>)
I hope you will be as enthousiast as me about this feature. I think it opens
nice perspectives :
- the possibility to share common request-map & view-map (login, logout,
setLocale, Lookups, etc)
- the possibility to split a big controller.xml by functional subdomain (like
for servicedef)
Peter
PS: I'm not sure if it's related to OFBIZ-77 issue
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