[Seaside] Re: Maintaining paths with File Libraries

[jtuchel at objektfabrik.de]

Hi Udo,

I guess you were speaking of WAMetafileLibrary. Seems like that's 
exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks for answering

Joachim

Am 12.10.14 um 15:52 schrieb Udo Schneider:
> Hi Joachim,
>
> IMHO most of your requirements are already addressed by 
> "WAAbstractFileLibrary".
> Quite handy if you need to import deeply nested framework directory 
> structures. I learned about it when taking a look at Thorsten's 
> Bootstrap project. And I'm loving it since then - 
> WAAbstractFileLibrary and the wrapper :-)
>
> CU,
>
> Udo
>
>
> On 12.10.14 11:01, jtuchel at objektfabrik.de wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> back when Seaside was invented, you only needed a hand ful of js and css
>> files. Nowadays, you need a lot of them, like if you use a more complex
>> jQuery Plugin or tools like CodeMirror etc.
>>
>> Most of these consist not only of a bunch of files, but deploy with some
>> subdirectories like /lib, /css, /modes etc.
>>
>> What I'd like to do is this: for development and maybe even test
>> environments, I'd like to put such a tool into its own WAFileLibrary
>> subclass which serves subdirectories. This way, it is very simple to
>> replace the FileLibrary with real files on a production machine.
>> Another pro is that most of these tools are coded in a way that they
>> expect a certain directory structure, so they import files from their
>> /bin subdir by default. If you need to change this, you have to change
>> the .js sources. I'd like to avoid this.
>>
>> So there are teh following goals I want to achieve:
>>
>> * keep all files of a tool like CodeMirror in one FileLibrary
>> * keep the suggested directory structure as it is suggested by the tool
>> * thus make updating easier
>> * server files from "subdirectories" of the FileLibrary
>>
>> So far, I couldn't find anything that would allow me to make a
>> WAFileLibrary behave like a directory with subdirectories, like this
>>
>> /myTool
>>      + /modes
>>      + / styles
>>
>> With one common start path for the whole structure (bas URL).
>>
>> Did I overlook something?
>>
>> Joachim
>>
>
>
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