I have used Wirehose for this and it works very well for me. I have 8
different catalogs with different UIs sharing the same and different
databases.
It is now free too.
www.wirehose.com
- James Cicenia
On Feb 12, 2007, at 9:45 AM, David Aspinall wrote:
Many of you have probably encountered a situation where different
clients like minor changes to a shipping application's user
interface. As we strive to hold onto a common codebase for 90% of
our product we start to see pages with large numbers of
WOConditionals checking for one client code vs another.
I am investigating use of a feature like ERXPatcher to switch two
components at runtime in a simple way. For example if component
looks like:
== HTML ==
... <webobject name="wrap">...content...</webobject>
== WOD ==
wrap: PageWrapper
{
api = value;
}
Now assuming all my PageWrapper classes are API compatible, I would
like to switch ticoon.client.name.AjaxPageWrapper for the generic
version. After examining the the Wonder code I have been able to
replace the classes (trivial), but the template parser seems to
insist on parsing the original PageWrapper.wo instead of the
AjaxPageWrapper.wo I assume the parser is not using the
_NSUtilities.classForName() method and simply using the name as
defined in the WOD.
I was able to intercept this process for Page level components by
overriding WOApplication with
public void initializeTicoon(NSNotification event)
{
// startup
NSArray classesToReplace = PropertyTool.ArrayValue
( "ticoon.replacement.classes" );
if ( ArrayTool.IsEmptyArray( classesToReplace ) == false)
{
/** install patch components that must be 100% API compatible
with each other */
String baseclasspath = "ticoon.clients." +
sponsorShortName() + "." +
applicationName();
for ( int i = 0; i < classesToReplace.count(); i++ )
{
String item = (String)classesToReplace.objectAtIndex(i);
String fullpath = baseclasspath + item;
try
{
// example ticoon.clients.bank.AdministratorMain
Class replacement = Class.forName( fullpath );
com.webobjects.foundation._NSUtilities.setClassForName(
replacement, item);
}
catch ( ClassNotFoundException e )
{
/* not found, no replacement, use the default */
Log.Error( "Failed to replace " + item + " with
" + fullpath );
}
}
}
}
public WOComponent pageWithName(String s, WOContext wocontext)
{
if ( s == null )
s = "Main";
// pass the alternate component name to super
Class pageClass =
com.webobjects.foundation._NSUtilities.classWithName( s );
if ( pageClass != null )
s = pageClass.getName();
return super.pageWithName( s, wocontext);
}
So I can replace even the Main page with a custom
ticoon.client.name.CustomMain and the application will parse
CustomMain.wo
My next step will be to implement my own template parser and try
replacing the component name during the parsing process, I just was
hoping someone had done it already. Or is there a hook somewhere I
can override and get the app to parse AjaxPageWrapper.wo instead of
PageWrapper.wo?
David
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