OK - so I resolved conceptual problem #1:
String pageName = componentClassResolver.canonicalizePageName(newPath);
where "newPath" is the manipulated pass (after removing the
"SomeAccount").
Remains problem #2: How do I generically pass a parameter in a page URL (that
the page may or may not care about)?
Any hints?
Thanks so much!
Jochen
On Jan 30, 2012, at 9:50 PM, Jochen Frey wrote:
> 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
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