Thanks Robert, that's a useful example. I've implemented that and it worked well, although I do think it would be more consistent if the framework was able to hook into the custom resource (possibly via the AssetFactory) itself when handling the request, in the same way as it does when generating the url. In any case, the documentation could probably be a bit clearer in this area about what's required (it only mentions contributing the AssetFactory to the AssetSource service) which would have saved me some time. I realise you're not responsible for any of that btw, just giving some feedback to any tapestry contributors who might stumble over this.
Dave Robert Zeigler wrote: > > Take a look at: > > http://tapestry.formos.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/chenillekit/branches/1.0/chenillekit-tapestry/src/main/java/org/chenillekit/tapestry/core/factories/URIAssetFactory.java?view=markup > > for an example of how to create custom Assets. But note that the > approach there still requires you to implement a custom dispatcher to > handle the custom-asset request. > This is generally reasonable, since only you will know how to retrieve > the asset specified by the incoming url. > The benefit to going the asset route is that you still have > opportunities for asset localization, and your assets will "snap" > right into the rest of the framework. > > Robert > > On May 28, 2009, at 5/289:42 AM , davidb82 wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to register a custom Asset type, but I seem to have >> confused >> myself... I'm hoping somebody more intelligent than me (not >> hard :-)) can >> help me out. >> >> My problem is that I don't see how to get the client urls generated >> by the >> Assets I return from my AssetFactory to get correctly interpretted >> by the >> AssetDispatcher/AssetResourceLocator. It seems as though there is a >> hardcoded assumption that the Asset is either a servlet context >> resource or >> on the classpath, whereas I expected the AssetResourceLocator would >> somehow >> determine the type of the asset based on the url and retrieve the >> resource >> by calling getRootResource() on the approrpiate AssetFactory and then >> passing in the relative path to this resource supplied by the url. >> >> Judging by the documention: >> (http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry5.1/guide/assets.html) it's >> possible to >> create assets which are, for example, stored in a database, so I'm >> sure I'm >> missing something obvious here. >> >> Hope someone can help. >> >> Cheers >> >> Dave >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Question-about-AssertDispatcher-and-custom-Assets-tp23763175p23763175.html >> Sent from the Tapestry - User 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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://www.nabble.com/Question-about-custom-Asset-types-tp23763175p23776099.html Sent from the Tapestry - User 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
