Re: Webdav and link-rewrite

[Reinhard Pötz <re...@apache.org>]

Reinhard Pötz wrote:
> Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote:
>> Reinhard Pötz pisze:
>>> Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote:
>>>> Reinhard Pötz pisze:
>>>>>
>>>>> I had a brief look at the link-rewrite block and think now that the 
>>>>> migration of the LinkrewriterTransformer will be difficult because 
>>>>> of its configuration can't be easily converted to Spring.
>>>>
>>>> What kind of obstacles you can see here?
>>>
>>> What's your suggestion for a configuration like this:
>>>
>>> <map:transformer name="linkrewriter" 
>>> src="org.apache.cocoon.transformation.LinkRewriterTransformer">
>>>   <input-module name="book-raw">
>>>     <file src="cocoon://samples/linkrewriter/bookdemo/linkmap" 
>>> reloadable="true" />
>>>   </input-module>
>>>   <input-module name="book">
>>>     <input-module name="book-raw">
>>>       <file src="{src}" reloadable="true" />
>>>     </input-module>
>>>     <prefix>//*[@label='</prefix>
>>>     <suffix>']/@href</suffix>
>>>   </input-module>
>>> </map:transformer>
>>
>> I have no suggestion but only to remove support for such stuff. These 
>> days, when you define components as Spring beans you don't need to 
>> support configuration passed from one component to another. At least I 
>> don't see any need for supporting that kind of configuration.
>>
>> If we remove this, then of course we'll have to release 2.0 of link 
>> rewriter block but I have no problem with it.
> 
> I agree with you that we shouldn't support such stuff but what features 
> do we want to see in a new LinkRewriteTransformer? (... hence my 
> suggestion that we start with a ServletLinkRewriteTransformer because we 
> know that we need it.)

Any comments, otherwise I still believe that we only need a 
ServletLinkRewriteTransformer and will advise Lukas to go towards this 
direction.

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Re: Webdav and link-rewrite

[Vadim Gritsenko <va...@reverycodes.com>]

On Aug 6, 2008, at 5:17 AM, Reinhard Pötz wrote:

> Reinhard Pötz wrote:
>> I agree with you that we shouldn't support such stuff but what  
>> features do we want to see in a new LinkRewriteTransformer? (...  
>> hence my suggestion that we start with a  
>> ServletLinkRewriteTransformer because we know that we need it.)
>
> Any comments, otherwise I still believe that we only need a  
> ServletLinkRewriteTransformer and will advise Lukas to go towards  
> this direction.

I'd suggest to start with ServletLinkRewriteTransformer. When/if needs  
for other features become clear, it should be possible to implement  
full version by extending from the basic ServletLinkRewriteTransformer  
version.

Vadim