Hi Marco,
Does the behavior change if you remove output:method("html")?
Cheers,
Christian
> declare
> %rest:path("/dasbox/ui/resources/{$resource=.+}")
> %rest:GET
> %output:method("html")
> function ui:resources($resource as xs:string){
> let $path := file:base-dir() || 'resources/' || $resource
> let $mediatype := web:content-type($path)
> return (
> web:response-header(map { 'media-type': $mediatype }),
> if (matches($mediatype, "^text/.+")) then file:read-text($path)
> else file:read-binary($path)
> )
> };
>
> Thanks for your support,
> Marco.
>
>
> On 03/05/2016 02:59, Murray, Gregory wrote:
>>
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> Thanks for the hints! I see that using webapp/static does work, but I
>> prefer to keep all files related to an app together under one directory, so
>> I'll use the second option you provided -- using RESTXQ.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Greg
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Christian Grün [christian.gr...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 3:20 AM
>> To: Murray, Gregory
>> Cc: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de
>> Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Web application static files
>>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> Thanks for your mail. If you are working with the ZIP distribution,
>> you could compare your code with the RESTXQ examples in the restxq.xqm
>> file.
>>
>> I assume you get 404 because your static directory is a sub-directory
>> of bookplates. Here are two things you can do:
>>
>> * Move your static directory from "webapp/bookplates" to "webapp"
>> * Deliver static files via RESTXQ (see common.xqm and the REST path
>> "/dba/static/{$file=.+}").
>>
>> Does this help?
>> Christian
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Murray, Gregory
>> <gregory.mur...@ptsem.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm new to BaseX, and I'm setting up a simple web application (on
>>> Mac/Unix, using the ZIP distribution of BaseX). I'm unable to bring in
>>> static files like CSS. Following the documentation and the "dba" web
>>> application that comes with BaseX, I have included the following in the
>>> HTML:
>>>
>>> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="static/app.css"/>
>>>
>>> to point to a file that resides here:
>>>
>>> ~/basex/webapp/bookplates/static/app.css
>>>
>>> I have a module sitting here:
>>>
>>> ~/basex/webapp/bookplates/controller.xqm
>>>
>>> with a function with these annotations:
>>>
>>> %rest:path("bookplates")
>>> %output:method("html")
>>>
>>> When I point my browser to http://localhost:8984/bookplates/ the server
>>> successfully returns the HTML, but when the browser tries to load the CSS it
>>> requests http://localhost:8984/bookplates/static/app.css and the server
>>> responds with a 404 saying "No function found that matches the request" as
>>> if the server is looking for a RESTXQ function.
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Greg
>
>
