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Trail taglib
Have just written a new taglib for creating dynamic breadcrumbs called
Trail taglib. [Many thanks to Craig/Struts list for helping with queries].
Basic approach is that pages push themselves onto a trail-stack, and
a normalized version is maintained for showing on a page. ie)
<trail:push label="List Categories"/> <!-- optional uri attribute -->
<trail:list delimiter=" -> "/><br/>
In addition to the normalized user version, a full trail is also
maintained, which could be emailed or stored instead of access logs on
session expiry.
Normalization occurs whenever an element is repeated in a trail, its
http-referer is repeated in a trail [ie sneaky users used the back button]
or possibly when the trail:pop tag is used, though I've not had a need to
use that yet.
Anyway, I've two options:
1) Release on OsJava and offer to Jakarta Taglibs later.
2) Put in the Jakarta Taglibs sandbox.
Any views?
Hen
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Re: Trail taglib
Posted by Martin Cooper <ma...@apache.org>.
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Henri Yandell wrote:
>
> Have just written a new taglib for creating dynamic breadcrumbs called
> Trail taglib. [Many thanks to Craig/Struts list for helping with queries].
>
> Basic approach is that pages push themselves onto a trail-stack, and
> a normalized version is maintained for showing on a page. ie)
Sounds interesting. How about putting a couple of pages up somewhere so
that we can see some JSP source and the resulting HTML?
I assume <trail:list> does something like:
entry1 -> entry2 -> entry3
when the delimiter is "->". I'm wondering if the taglib supports tree-ish
presentation, like:
entry1
|_ entry2
|_ entry3
or how hard it would be to make it sufficiently general to do that.
--
Martin Cooper
>
> <trail:push label="List Categories"/> <!-- optional uri attribute -->
> <trail:list delimiter=" -> "/><br/>
>
> In addition to the normalized user version, a full trail is also
> maintained, which could be emailed or stored instead of access logs on
> session expiry.
>
> Normalization occurs whenever an element is repeated in a trail, its
> http-referer is repeated in a trail [ie sneaky users used the back button]
> or possibly when the trail:pop tag is used, though I've not had a need to
> use that yet.
>
> Anyway, I've two options:
>
> 1) Release on OsJava and offer to Jakarta Taglibs later.
> 2) Put in the Jakarta Taglibs sandbox.
>
> Any views?
>
> Hen
>
>
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Re: Trail taglib
Posted by Henri Yandell <ba...@generationjava.com>.
Ah well, different ways :) I've got in the habit of mavenising everything.
http://www.osjava.org/trail-taglib/index.html
Because part of this is for me to get a grip on how best to organise a
taglib project under maven, I'll work on the example webapp next, but the
How-To page gives the basic idea and the source is pretty tiny.
Anyway, opinions appreciated. [ignoring, why can't I get the Tag Reference
to look correct?].
Hen
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Glenn Nielsen wrote:
> I would be happy with just a tar.gz of the source and a prebuilt
> example webapp. If it looks ok, import it into jakarta-taglibs
> after a vote.
>
> Glenn
>
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:32:37PM -0500, Henri Yandell wrote:
> >
> > S'not that hard. I'm going to place a 0.1 on osjava as it saves me
> > having to migrate from a maven build system to the jakarta-taglibs system
> > before anyone looks at it.
> >
> > Should be going up tonight.
> >
> > Hen
> >
> > On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Felipe Leme wrote:
> >
> > > Glenn,
> > >
> > > But to put the code somewhere else, he would have to setup a CVS
> > > account, build files, etc. As Hen's already a committer for taglibs, it
> > > would easier to setup the sandbox - or is the sandbox so evil that we
> > > should avoid it at all costs :-) ?
> > >
> > > Regardless, I think that taglib will be welcome...
> > >
> > >
> > > Felipe
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 21:32, Glenn Nielsen wrote:
> > > > Hen,
> > > >
> > > > How about putting the code somewhere where others can evaluate it.
> > > > Perhaps if it is complete enough there can be a vote to import
> > > > it directly into jakarta-taglibs and avoid the sandbox.
> > > >
> > > > Glenn
> > >
> > >
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Re: Trail taglib
Posted by Glenn Nielsen <gl...@mail.more.net>.
I would be happy with just a tar.gz of the source and a prebuilt
example webapp. If it looks ok, import it into jakarta-taglibs
after a vote.
Glenn
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:32:37PM -0500, Henri Yandell wrote:
>
> S'not that hard. I'm going to place a 0.1 on osjava as it saves me
> having to migrate from a maven build system to the jakarta-taglibs system
> before anyone looks at it.
>
> Should be going up tonight.
>
> Hen
>
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Felipe Leme wrote:
>
> > Glenn,
> >
> > But to put the code somewhere else, he would have to setup a CVS
> > account, build files, etc. As Hen's already a committer for taglibs, it
> > would easier to setup the sandbox - or is the sandbox so evil that we
> > should avoid it at all costs :-) ?
> >
> > Regardless, I think that taglib will be welcome...
> >
> >
> > Felipe
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 21:32, Glenn Nielsen wrote:
> > > Hen,
> > >
> > > How about putting the code somewhere where others can evaluate it.
> > > Perhaps if it is complete enough there can be a vote to import
> > > it directly into jakarta-taglibs and avoid the sandbox.
> > >
> > > Glenn
> >
> >
> >
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Re: Trail taglib
Posted by Henri Yandell <ba...@generationjava.com>.
S'not that hard. I'm going to place a 0.1 on osjava as it saves me
having to migrate from a maven build system to the jakarta-taglibs system
before anyone looks at it.
Should be going up tonight.
Hen
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Felipe Leme wrote:
> Glenn,
>
> But to put the code somewhere else, he would have to setup a CVS
> account, build files, etc. As Hen's already a committer for taglibs, it
> would easier to setup the sandbox - or is the sandbox so evil that we
> should avoid it at all costs :-) ?
>
> Regardless, I think that taglib will be welcome...
>
>
> Felipe
>
>
> On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 21:32, Glenn Nielsen wrote:
> > Hen,
> >
> > How about putting the code somewhere where others can evaluate it.
> > Perhaps if it is complete enough there can be a vote to import
> > it directly into jakarta-taglibs and avoid the sandbox.
> >
> > Glenn
>
>
>
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Re: Trail taglib
Posted by Felipe Leme <ja...@felipeal.net>.
Glenn,
But to put the code somewhere else, he would have to setup a CVS
account, build files, etc. As Hen's already a committer for taglibs, it
would easier to setup the sandbox - or is the sandbox so evil that we
should avoid it at all costs :-) ?
Regardless, I think that taglib will be welcome...
Felipe
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 21:32, Glenn Nielsen wrote:
> Hen,
>
> How about putting the code somewhere where others can evaluate it.
> Perhaps if it is complete enough there can be a vote to import
> it directly into jakarta-taglibs and avoid the sandbox.
>
> Glenn
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Re: Trail taglib
Posted by Glenn Nielsen <gl...@mail.more.net>.
Hen,
How about putting the code somewhere where others can evaluate it.
Perhaps if it is complete enough there can be a vote to import
it directly into jakarta-taglibs and avoid the sandbox.
Glenn
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 04:51:08PM -0500, Henri Yandell wrote:
>
> By the way, the only other similar taglib I can see is the Coldbeans
> Breadcrumbs tagilb which is much simpler and merely offers a typed way to
> specify a static-breadcrumbs trail. I did rename the taglib from
> breadcrumbs to trail though to avoid any meme clash.
>
> Hen
>
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Henri Yandell wrote:
>
> >
> > Have just written a new taglib for creating dynamic breadcrumbs called
> > Trail taglib. [Many thanks to Craig/Struts list for helping with queries].
> >
> > Basic approach is that pages push themselves onto a trail-stack, and
> > a normalized version is maintained for showing on a page. ie)
> >
> > <trail:push label="List Categories"/> <!-- optional uri attribute -->
> > <trail:list delimiter=" -> "/><br/>
> >
> > In addition to the normalized user version, a full trail is also
> > maintained, which could be emailed or stored instead of access logs on
> > session expiry.
> >
> > Normalization occurs whenever an element is repeated in a trail, its
> > http-referer is repeated in a trail [ie sneaky users used the back button]
> > or possibly when the trail:pop tag is used, though I've not had a need to
> > use that yet.
> >
> > Anyway, I've two options:
> >
> > 1) Release on OsJava and offer to Jakarta Taglibs later.
> > 2) Put in the Jakarta Taglibs sandbox.
> >
> > Any views?
> >
> > Hen
> >
> >
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> >
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Re: Trail taglib
Posted by Henri Yandell <ba...@generationjava.com>.
By the way, the only other similar taglib I can see is the Coldbeans
Breadcrumbs tagilb which is much simpler and merely offers a typed way to
specify a static-breadcrumbs trail. I did rename the taglib from
breadcrumbs to trail though to avoid any meme clash.
Hen
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Henri Yandell wrote:
>
> Have just written a new taglib for creating dynamic breadcrumbs called
> Trail taglib. [Many thanks to Craig/Struts list for helping with queries].
>
> Basic approach is that pages push themselves onto a trail-stack, and
> a normalized version is maintained for showing on a page. ie)
>
> <trail:push label="List Categories"/> <!-- optional uri attribute -->
> <trail:list delimiter=" -> "/><br/>
>
> In addition to the normalized user version, a full trail is also
> maintained, which could be emailed or stored instead of access logs on
> session expiry.
>
> Normalization occurs whenever an element is repeated in a trail, its
> http-referer is repeated in a trail [ie sneaky users used the back button]
> or possibly when the trail:pop tag is used, though I've not had a need to
> use that yet.
>
> Anyway, I've two options:
>
> 1) Release on OsJava and offer to Jakarta Taglibs later.
> 2) Put in the Jakarta Taglibs sandbox.
>
> Any views?
>
> Hen
>
>
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