Visual Editor: Problem with stylesheet path and multiple vie

[asgeirf]

Hi folks,

I have a Seam-gen project with the following structure:

view/stylesheet/theme.css
view/layout/template.xhtml

view/home.xhtml (uses template.xhtml)
view/admin/home.xhtml (uses template.xhtml)

The template references the stylesheet as follows:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="#{request.contextPath}/stylesheet/theme.css"/>

This works well at runtime, but not within the Visual Editor, which doesn't pick up the stylesheet. Giving the href a relative location like './stylesheet/theme.css' works well for views within the root 'view' folder, but not for views within sub-folders.

My current workaround is to add the relative path to the stylesheet within the template.

<!-- This href enables pages in first-level sub-folders to access the css -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../stylesheet/theme.css"/>

<!-- This href enables root folders to access the css -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./stylesheet/theme.css"/>

My question is: Is there any way to avoid such a 'hack' to enable the visual editor to view styled pages within sub-folders. Is there any way to e.g. specify the absolute location of the stylesheet/template?

[maxandersen]

if you are using JBT 3 beta you should be able to setup a EL expression for the pages in a specific folder.

See http://docs.jboss.org/tools/whatsnew/vpe/vpe-news-3.0.0.Alpha1.html for details.

[asgeirf]

if you are using JBT 3 beta you should be able to setup a EL expression for the pages in a specific folder.

See http://docs.jboss.org/tools/whatsnew/vpe/vpe-news-3.0.0.Alpha1.html for details.

Great, thanks!

This seems to work fine for images etc, but I can't get it to work for CSS.

1) Setting the actual run-time absolute folder (pr project) to my 'view' folder
2) Setting the el expression (pr project) request.contextPath to empty string (no value)

<img src="#{request.contextPath}/img/banner.png"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="#{request.contextPath}/stylesheet/theme.css"/>

(I'm on #jbosstools on IRC if you'd like to help debug this further)

[asgeirf]

Some further observations regarding this issue:

Observation 1) The visual editor in a clean JBoss Tools install (In my case this build [1] on linux_x86_64) does not pick up the stylesheet of a clean seam-gen project generated by the 'seam create-project' command.

<a:loadStyle src="/stylesheet/theme.css"/>

To test this, change the url to '../stylesheet/theme.css' and you will see that the page is rendered with the stylesheet (this relative url naturally only works for layout/template.xhtml and co, change it to e.g. 'stylesheet/theme.css' to see the change in 'home.xhtml')

Observation 2) Setting the 'Actual Run-time Absolute folder' to $myproject/view in Project-scope does not help resolve the CSS url above.

Max opened this and related jiras yesterday: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-3059

However, this issue might not be directly related to EL expressions, as I don't use any in this example, and it still doesn't work...

[1] http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/builds/nightly/3.0.0.CR1/200811080256/index.html

[maxandersen]

the problem is that for seam-gen'ed project we don't know the root web content dir.

I guess we should add a "search upwards until we see a WEB-INF dir...that would be a good default.