Medium Grained Pages.xml

[jgilbert]

Currently it is possible to have a global pages.xml file or a .page.xml per page.

I would like to be able to define multiple meta-inf/pages.xml and have them all merged similar to the way meta-inf/components.xml works.

It looks like I could just modify Pages.initialize() to work similar to the way Initialization.initComponentsFromXmlDocuments() works something like this:

public void initialize() {
   // leave existing impl
   for (String resource: resources) {
      InputStream stream = ResourceLoader.instance().getResourceAsStream(resource);      
      parse(stream);
   }
   
   // add adding approach
   Enumeration<URL> resources = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResources("META-INF/pages.xml");
   while (resources.hasMoreElements()) {
      URL url = resources.nextElement();
      parse(url.openStream());
   }
}

Does anyone see any unintended side effects or problems with doing this?

[pmuir]

File a feature request with a patch :-)

[andygibson.contact.andygibson.net]

Right now you can specify multiple pages.xml files and have them merged.

Check out this link to the old Seam forums :

Multiple Pages.xml

[andygibson.contact.andygibson.net]

Oh, and this goes in components.xml

Cheers,

Andy

[jgilbert]

Thanks for pointing out the additional multiple pages configuration feature. That helps a little but doesn't cover all of my goals.

Here is another posting that covers the whole plugin goal I am after:

wiki://45163

Here are the JIRA features/patches I created:

https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-3509

https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-3510