[Seaside] About resourceBaseUr, serverName and serverPath

[Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez]

Hi all,

I have some questions about #resourceBaseUrl, #serverName and #serverPath.

In their default state they are ''. This is how I understand them:

#resourceBaseUrl
-----------------

This is a handy way to *NOT* write your server hostname + resource path 
every time you render a link or a image so, if

#resourceBaseUrl is 'http://www.example.com.mx/resources/"

then instead of writing:

html image url: 'http://www.example.com.mx/resources/images/image.jpg'

you write:

html image resourceUrl: 'images/image.jpg'

without polluting your code with the server name. This way, you can 
change the server name to other domain or change the resource directory 
to another path or even another server.

This is used for *you* the developer to generate URLs in anchors and images.

Is this correct?


# serverName
-------------
This is used for *Seaside* to generate URLs in forms, links with 
callbacks, link and meta tags.

If you don't specify it, they are are generated as:

http://localhost:8080/seaside/myApp?_s=asdfasdf&_k=adsfasfa

if you are accessing the app as:

http://localhost:8080/seaside/myApp

or

http://example.com/seaside/myApp?_s=asdfasdf&_k=adsfasfa

if you are accessing the app as

http://example.com/seaside/myApp

It appears to me that if they aren't specified, Seaside USE the 
serverName and serverPort from the request.

If you specify them, those values ARE used, no matter the name you used 
to access the app.

That is, if you specify this preference, say, as 'error.com', and your 
app is in 'example.com', the url are generated as:

http://error.com/seaside/myApp?_s=asdfasdf&_k=adsfasfa

This will crash your app, because error.com doen't exists.

Or, another example, if you specify 'example.com' and are accessing the 
app from your local machine, for instance, when developing, as:

http://localhost:8080/seaside/myApp

the URLs generated will be:

http://example.com/seaside/myApp?_s=asdfasdf&_k=adsfasfa

and you will be interacting with your real application and not the 
development one.

Is this correct?

# serverPort

This one behaves analogous to serverName.



So, can you please comment about this preferences and tell me if I am wrong?

Thank you,
Miguel Cobá