> From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sven Kuenzler > > Andrew C. Oliver schrieb: > > >> The real use case I had in mind was the application where I used the > >> Serializer out of Cocoon. This application produces an Excel sheet > >> which is sent out by Email. So it is not direct a response but a "side > >> effect" to the request. In C2 this is called a "sink" (or will be).
It's not yet decided will sink be or not. > > Okay I got that part...but it sounds kind of like an action to me. > > Well, haven't thought of that (yet). My other idea was about the yet to > be flow script system. Stefano gave an example save2disk() flow that > would be able to save a resource defined by sitemap to disk (so what?). > This was in the vision department of his RT, however. So I don't expect > this soon to be possible. Ditto. > >> If I wanted to port that app to Cocoon, I thought of using a > >> Transformer. Then again, probalby I would not really need a > >> WriteableSource for that. IIRC, there is a Transformer which could > >> take a Serializer to produce the Excel output. > > > > Okay so the issue is that you have *two* outputs of sort. One is to > > email, one is to the browser. The Excel is to email and probably HTML > > to the browser. > > The other part really is a SOAP response. Which isn't possible with C2 > either. SOAP is XML, so why "isn't possible"? > Or at least not as easy as with Axis and friends. > > > In my mind this doesn't justify *breaking* the logical model of the > > sitemap. It seems you need an Action that makes a seperate internal > > request of sorts and emails the output. So the action would make a > > request to a different pipeline and email that, where the user response > > would be in HTML. And with ServerPagesAction it's possible to reuse existing logicsheets. > > Does that not sound reasonable? Any thoughts from you Vadim? It is reasonable, and doable. But, OTOH, it's easier to do such sings with "side-effect transformer", like SourceWritingTransformer, on top of which <slash-edit/> application was built, or XMLDBTransformer (which can write to XML:DB), etc. Also, see recent thread on cocoon-dev with links to all previous discussions, including "cocoon symmetry": http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=102767485200006&r=1&w=2 Final decision is not made yet. Vadim > >> Sven --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
