Hi! I am looking for a clean way to generically rewrite URLs as follows:
Publicly we want to have an account name to be the first part of the path in URLs like so: /SomeAccount/settings/page1. Since (I believe) that in Tapestry I can't bind the first part of the path to a variable, I would like to rewrite it to something like this: /settings/page1?account=SomeAccount I would want it to be a generic rewrite along the lines of "if the path doesn't start with /login then rewrite the url". The effect would be that what was a path element becomes a variable (whether query variable or context I don't really know or care). I have seen Igor's blog post (http://blog.tapestry5.de/index.php/2010/09/06/new-url-rewriting-api/). I have two conceptual hurdles that I can't overcome and would love some help with: After doing the path manipulation (by way of String manipulation), I need to find the Page class by way of a String that looks like "/settings/page1". How do I pass newly created variable (account) into the PageRenderRequestParameters (I guess if knew the Java class from step 1, I could check if it implements an interface and if so, typecast it and ask the receiving page to generate a link ... but that wouldn't help much either. It's pretty clear to me how I'd have done it in TS 5.1 (http://tapestry.apache.org/url-rewriting.html), but URLRewriterRule is not supported any more. Alternatively I could roll my own RequestFilter (like the TimingFilter), but it seems there'd have to be a better way? Any suggestions? Thanks! Jochen --- joc...@jochenfrey.com +1.415.366.0450 @jochen_frey
