ScriptAction to run legacy Perl CGI scripts?

[gv <jg...@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

We have a bunch of old Perl CGI scripts that we would
like to wrap Cocoon around. We plan to change the CGI
output to XML, and have Cocoon XSLT-transform it on
the way out of the pipeline, something like this:

<map:match pattern="app/*">
  <map:act type="request">
    <map:parameter name="parameters" value="true" />
    <map:generate
src="http://www.our-site.com/cgi-bin/{../1}{requestQuery}"
/>
  </map:act>
  <map:transform ... />
  <map:serialize />
</map:match>

However, we'd rather not use HTTP to get the script
output, since the request would have to go through the
web server again -- we'd rather run the script
directly. I'm gathering that we may be able to use a
ScriptAction and run the script using the
BeanScriptingFramework. Can anyone please point me to
more information or a sitemap example of such a
ScriptAction? Or suggest a better way to do this?

Thanks,
John


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RE: ScriptAction to run legacy Perl CGI scripts?

[Vadim Gritsenko <va...@verizon.net>]

> From: gv [mailto:jgvsh@yahoo.com]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We have a bunch of old Perl CGI scripts that we would
> like to wrap Cocoon around. We plan to change the CGI
> output to XML, and have Cocoon XSLT-transform it on
> the way out of the pipeline, something like this:
> 
> <map:match pattern="app/*">
>   <map:act type="request">
>     <map:parameter name="parameters" value="true" />
>     <map:generate
> src="http://www.our-site.com/cgi-bin/{../1}{requestQuery}"
> />
>   </map:act>
>   <map:transform ... />
>   <map:serialize />
> </map:match>
> 
> However, we'd rather not use HTTP to get the script
> output, since the request would have to go through the
> web server again -- we'd rather run the script
> directly. I'm gathering that we may be able to use a
> ScriptAction and run the script using the
> BeanScriptingFramework. Can anyone please point me to
> more information or a sitemap example of such a
> ScriptAction? Or suggest a better way to do this?

First, you have to find (Java) Perl interpreter to plug it into BSF. Let
me know if you find one, I would love to see such dinosaur.

There are samples of ScriptGenerator, it works similarly to
ScriptAction.


Vadim

> Thanks,
> John


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