[Seaside-dev] crazy thought

[Dale Henrichs]

It does seem to be getting too complex ... without the browser, it isn't 
easy to figure out what url to hit ... I loaded the Seaside-Examples on 
top of the Base (no Browser) and didn't know what apps were available 
until I inspected 'WADispatcher default' and even then I had a false 
start or two ...

Perhaps it could be as simple as the default 404 message lists the 
available apps and their urls. the 404 message is something that folks 
would want to customize before they went into production anyway, so it 
would be unlikely to overlooked on your way to production (useful to 
find out if you accidentally had applications hanging around you'd be 
inclined to notice that too.

Dale


Julian Fitzell wrote:
> It's been my intention for a while to make Dispatcher know how to
> render a listing of its handlers so we didn't need the Browse
> application. This would need to allow enabling/disabling and probably
> configuration like the WAFileLibrary listing so it can do text/html
> variants. I can't remember if I opened an issue for that, but of
> course I haven't got around to implementing it. It would also handle
> its own (optional?) redirection from "foo" to "foo/" and of course
> enabling listing would be mutually exclusive with having a default
> handler specified.
> 
> Mind you, I was only thinking of that for when you hit the Dispatcher
> directly, not for when you request an entry that doesn't exist. I
> guess I can imagine the 404 contents including a listing of available
> sub-handlers... again I guess that would need to be configurable on
> and off. Is that getting too complex?
> 
> Julian
> 
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Dale Henrichs <dhenrich at vmware.com> wrote:
>> playing with minimal loads of Seaside3.0 (i.e., no browser loaded and
>> sometimes no applications registered) I had a crazy thought that when you
>> get the '/seaside not found' that the list of actual application urls are
>> listed ... telling you what urls you can use ...
>>
>> It's crazy but without the application browser, it's a little bit of work to
>> figure out what you can load ... especially useful for me would be the
>> 'there are no applications registered' variant:)
>>
>> Dale
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