Thanks Howard, That's great news. I appreciate your work!
Cheers, Levi Howard Lewis Ship wrote: > > 5.1 is pretty stable right now and due to some concerns of my own (*), > I'll be pushing to release it fairly soon. I think the Spring Web Flow > support may move out to 5.2. > > It's not going to go 18 releases like 5.0! > > (*) I have clients of my own who are in the same predicament. Also I > think it would be good to release 5.1 with tons of new features (100 > issues closed so far) that is fully backwards compatible to 5.0 ... > just upgrade and receive the benefits. > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:28 PM, xfile80303 <l...@grokers.net> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the reply Howard. >> >> Is 5.1 at a state where I can start using it to develop a service which >> will >> go to production in a couple months? >> >> (i.e. does this help me now?) >> >> Levi >> >> >> Howard Lewis Ship wrote: >>> >>> I've been doing some cleanup of some internal APIs lately with the >>> goal to centralizing Tapestry's logic for generating and parsing >>> component event and page render links. This will allow an application >>> to override how that information is incorporated into the URL. >>> >>> In your case, you could have a Dispatcher recognize the "/venue_name" >>> part and then generate a PageRenderRequestParameters object and invoke >>> the ComponentRequestHandler.handlePageRender() pipeline method. >>> >>> Note: I'm talking about 5.1 here! >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:17 AM, xfile80303 <l...@grokers.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> Greetings all, >>>> >>>> I've searched this list and found several people looking to do the same >>>> thing, but no definitive answers, so perhaps someone has some new info. >>>> >>>> Specifically, I would like to manipulate the URLs such that I can have >>>> "nice" RESTful style URLs which feed information into the page >>>> ultimately >>>> being rendered. >>>> >>>> For example: >>>> >>>> /app/venue_name/en_US/category/product/UUID >>>> >>>> where product would be the rendering page, UUID could be the activation >>>> context (which, if I understand correctly T5 will handle already). >>>> However, >>>> the "venue_name" and locale are not actual pages and are simply >>>> information >>>> which is to be gleaned from the URL and passed to the page so it can >>>> render >>>> as specified. >>>> >>>> As other posts have suggested, it would seem to me that any >>>> manipulation >>>> of >>>> the URL would have to happen in such a way that Tapestry would properly >>>> 1) >>>> parse these URL "parameters" and pass them into the system for use by >>>> the >>>> page, and 2) understand these "parameters" would need to be in Tapestry >>>> generated links to preserve this data from link to link (page to page). >>>> >>>> There has been mention of using a RequestFilter or a Dispatcher to do >>>> this, >>>> but I have two concerns with this: 1) I am not sure how I would modify >>>> the >>>> Request (at all?) so Tapestry internals would find the page to render >>>> (remove the venu_name and locale parameters and let Tapestry locate the >>>> category/product page) 2) Even if I was able to modify the Request, how >>>> would I accomplish #2 above, so generated links would contain this >>>> data? >>>> >>>> I appreciate your time and patience with this. >>>> >>>> Levi >>>> -- >>>> View this message in context: >>>> http://n2.nabble.com/-T5--URL-Manipulation-tp2276010p2276010.html >>>> Sent from the Tapestry Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Howard M. Lewis Ship >>> >>> Creator Apache Tapestry and Apache HiveMind >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://n2.nabble.com/-T5--URL-Manipulation-tp2276010p2277078.html >> Sent from the Tapestry Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org >> >> > > > > -- > Howard M. 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