This might seem a truly bizarre request - particularly to folks who solely use lift as their web framework; but I've been hacking up a number of JAXRS services - I'm a big JAXRS fan (and slowly being drawn to scala/lift).
I'd like to make Lift templates an option for any JAXRS developer who's made a RESTful service and wants nice HTML/XML/Atom views using Lift snippets etc. A thread recently started on the Jersey list btw... http://n2.nabble.com/using-Lift-templates-with-Jersey-%28was-Re%3A--Jersey--custom--TemplateProcessor-not-having-its-constructor-injected-%29-td2675518.html I've started hacking up a Jersey TemplateProcessor to wire in Lift templates using implicit views; I can grab the template using Lift's TemplateFinder fine - but I've just not got enough Lift implementation knowledge yet to figure out how to render it :). I tried using LiftServlet but thats a bit of a hack and it tends to just return the template itself (since I'm not using Lifts mapping of URIs to requests etc) - I kinda need to go in somewhere in between the two :) FWIW I'm imagining two possible options (i) folks write Java Resource Beans for JAXRS then wire Lift templates using the @ImplictProvides mechanism to hook a resource bean to the Lift template (ii) folks create markup - or template instantiations within their JAXRS beans written in Scala then there's no need for the @ImplicitProvides hook. e.g. @Path("/bar") class MyResource { @GET @Produces(Array("text/html")) def view() = <html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html> ... @POST def foo(form: SomeBean) = {...} } In either case, I need some little hook to be able to take a Box[NodeSeq] and pass it to Lift to render it using the standard lift tags + snippets etc. This could be a gentle way to get folks gradually hooked on Scala/Lift; gradually moving from Java/JSP to Scala/Lift for templates, then resource beans etc. (Changing web frameworks is often a big decision to make, though switching out JSP and using Lift templates is a kinda no brainer... :) I wondered if any Lift ninja's could give me some hints at a clean way to do this? -- James ------- http://macstrac.blogspot.com/ Open Source Integration http://fusesource.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
