[Seaside] CSS URLs

[Bert Freudenberg]

SqueakSource also serves a headline image referenced from a style  
sheet. Cannot recall the details, though.

- Bert -

Am 04.10.2006 um 15:14 schrieb Ron Teitelbaum:

> Hi Michel,
>
> That's exactly what I'm looking for.  I don't see anything similar for
> Squeak.  What are the chances of allowing me to port the code to  
> squeak?
>
> Ron
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michel Bany [mailto:michel.bany at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 6:16 AM
>> To: Ron at USMedRec.com; The Squeak Enterprise Aubergines Server -  
>> general
>> discussion.
>> Subject: Re: [Seaside] CSS URLs
>>
>> Hi Ron,
>>
>>> To do this I would need to be able to support a URL in css.  I've
>>> got this
>>> working "IF" I translate the url to a seaside url.
>>
>> I have done something similar in VW as part of parcel
>> "SeasideWebDesignerTool".
>> The idea is to use a subclass of WARequestHandler that is designed to
>> serve
>> graphic files. This subclass is named WAPictureServer and is  
>> registered
>> as 'images' in the default dispatcher. As a result, any url in the  
>> form
>> /seaside/images/foo/bar/... is dispatched to this handler via
>> #handleRequest:
>> The corresponding method delegates the request handling to an  
>> instance
>> of WAPictureHandler. It parses the url like that :
>> 	/seaside/images/AAA/BBB.CCC
>> where
>> AAA is the name of a class
>> BBB is the name of an annotated method that answers a byte array
>> .CCC is optional and ignored
>> Typically, AAA is a subclass of WAStyleLibrary and method BBB is
>> annotated like this :
>>
>> bg
>> 	<objectNamed: 'bg.gif'
>> 		contentType: 'image/gif'
>> 		uploadDate: 'April 13, 2005 12:00:00.002'
>> 		creationDate: 'April 13, 2005 12:00:00.003'
>> 		modificationDate: 'April 13, 2005 12:00:00.004'
>> 		by: 'Douglas Bowman'>
>>
>> 	^ ByteArray fromPackedString:
>> 'Q4%FNC%!E@@- at LP@@M7#5]/!4?;>?/K4;.[)8M+ 4/3<?OW7</''9=>+-9NC$5.W
>> (7.;1:.70:^?2:>K%6/#8=/_7=_O5<N'',8?+:>O/;>>/.97]&U^O&6>S''7_7=? 
>> ^3/:NG
>> $6_G3;.C#6N#+8"G9A@@@@@@@K@@@@@@T at B4@@@W XBFNYF&^JA&,[N.>\B3OK&C_^J;/
>> _N?''"*A0RB0ZO\"$D&%T\I;P:OMA+U*/U8162>56L>B0^C1^&L?(]I*0XK/[!K!<S*?
>> [;?#8Y?>Y>O>@ XDI!HVF!8"I" $V#AZO$IFR$!.U%)^XF06[''I6^'' 2!(*N$)
>> ZHN*J&**:,C+*>0,[D]-KV4,*:6.K.1D+:?0LGAA<SE1,_H2\+FD\7N3=CPDMOT5]
>> [VBM''Z6=3]7-?[ENK#9NW%E^#):./+A.;/<OG2<?S0F/_8>_+:@/7>?0 at CB!1H,BC at B0
>> SJ%28L at P@N0 at a'
>>
>> The above sample answers a ByteArray built from a constant. It could
>> also answer a Byte Array read from a file and cached.
>>
>> With the above in place you can now have things like this in your  
>> css:
>> 	url("/seaside/images/SlidingDoors/bg.gif")
>>
>> Not sure if this has been done in Squeak.
>>
>> HTH
>> Michel.
>
>
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