[Seaside] Serving files with WAComancheAdapter

[John McKeon]

Please correct me if I am wrong, but this still serves the files through the
image, only now you are imposing the overhead of first reading the file from
the hard drive. This will slow things down, not speed them up, but perhaps
your aim is to conserve RAM used by the image? (But of course, loading the
files into the image will temporarily increase in-memory image size, and
since every request will create load its own set of files from the hard
drive, this could drive memory usage way up depending on how many requests
are being served.
Am I interpreting this correctly?

John

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Tony Fleig <tony.fleig at gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to serve CSS and Javascript files from an on-disk directory (i.e.
> not using WAFileLibrary) and also not using Apache.
>
> I have JQuery CSS files that reference a large number of image files from
> an images subdirectory. When these files are imported into a WAFileLibrary,
> the image filenames are changed and of course there are no subdirectories.
> Changing the original css file to accommodate this is not practical as I
> expect to receive new ones periodically and then would have to do it all
> over again.
>
> I am attracted by the easy deployment of Seaside apps when Apache is not
> involved and for the few files involved it doesn't seem to me that Apache is
> warranted, especially during development of the site.
>
> I could find no information on the right way to do this, so I subclassed
> WAServerAdaptor as shown below.
>
> With these modifications, If the URL received from the browser's path
> begins with /static, then files are served from a specified directory.
> Otherwise, the request is passed on (eventually) to WADispatcher as normal.
>
> This works for me, but I have no idea as to whether there is an easier or
> better way or if there is a feature to allow this that I just did not find.
>
> I am coming back to Smalltalk after many years and I am definitely a bit
> rusty, so any criticism of the code will also be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> TF
>
>
>  'From Pharo1.1 of 17 July 2010 [Latest update: #11411] on 26 October 2010
> at 10:08:40 am'!
> WAComancheAdaptor subclass: #TFComancheAdaptor
> instanceVariableNames: 'staticDirectory staticPathPart'
> classVariableNames: ''
> poolDictionaries: ''
> category: 'TFStuff'!
>
> !TFComancheAdaptor methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'TF 10/26/2010
> 08:58'!
> defaultStaticDirectory
> ^ FileDirectory default pathName! !
>
> !TFComancheAdaptor methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'TF 10/26/2010
> 08:59'!
> defaultStaticPathPart
>
> ^ 'static'! !
>
> !TFComancheAdaptor methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'TF 10/26/2010
> 09:55'!
> process: aNativeRequest
> "Serve static files from a specified directory if the URL path begins with
> a specified name.
>  The default staticDirectory is the current directory (nominally the
> Seaside resources directory)
> and the default static path part is 'static'. Thus, if the client requests
> 'http://localhost:8080/static/css/xyz.css' and the Seaside resources
> directory is
> '/home/user1/Seaside.app/Contents/Resources', the file returned will be
> '/home/user1/Seaside.app/Contents/Resources/static/css/xyz.css'.
>  Requests whose path does not begin with the static path part are
> unaffected, i.e. they are
> processed by the WAComancheAdapter as normal."
>
> | context pathParts fullFilePath method response |
> pathParts := aNativeRequest pathParts.
> pathParts size > 1 ifTrue: [
> (pathParts at: 1) = self staticPathPart ifTrue: [
> method := aNativeRequest method.
> (#(#GET #POST) includes: method) ifFalse: [^nil].
> fullFilePath := self staticDirectory,aNativeRequest url.
> (FileStream isAFileNamed: fullFilePath) ifFalse: [^nil].
> ^HttpResponse
> fromStream: (StandardFileStream readOnlyFileNamed: fullFilePath).
> ]
> ] .
>
> ^ self processResponse: (super process: aNativeRequest)
> ! !
>
> !TFComancheAdaptor methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'TF 10/26/2010
> 09:54'!
> processResponse: aResponse
>
> "Ensures that we get the HttpAdaptor's standard notFound error
> return, rather than the one line of text/plain that is returned by
> WADispatcher."
>  aResponse status = #notFound
> ifTrue: [ ^nil ]
> ifFalse: [^aResponse]
> ! !
>
> !TFComancheAdaptor methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'TF 10/26/2010
> 08:52'!
> staticDirectory
>
> staticDirectory isNil ifTrue: [ staticDirectory := self
> defaultStaticDirectory ].
> ^ staticDirectory! !
>
> !TFComancheAdaptor methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'TF 10/26/2010
> 08:57'!
> staticPathPart
>  staticPathPart isNil ifTrue: [ staticPathPart := self
> defaultStaticPathPart ].
> ^ staticPathPart! !
>
>
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