Re: [RT] Implementing Cocoon Blocks

[Geoff Howard]

Bruno Dumon wrote:
(catching up on block discussions...)

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 05:53, Geoff Howard wrote:
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Implementation Phases
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Phase 1: definition of the contract between the block manager inside 
cocoon and the standalone block deployer. These contracts include:

1) description of the file system layout (see above for a suggestion)
2) description of the wiring document schema
3) description of the block metadata schema
Ok, the file system seems fine - how about starting the discussion with 
the following for the wiring document?  (I'm assuming stuff will have to 
change - just trying to get the ball rolling)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blocks version="1.0">
  <block uri="cob:mycompany.com/webmail/1.3.43" wire-id="384938958499">
    <mount>/mail/</mount>
    <connections>
      <connection
name="external-skin">cob:yetanothercompany.com/skins/fancy/1.2.2</connection>
      <connection 
name="internal-skin">cob:mycompany.com/skins/corporate/34.3.345</connection>
      <connection 
name="repository">cob:mycompany.com/repositories/email/exchange/3.2.1</connection>
    </connections>
    <configuration>
      <param name="user">guest</param>
      <param name="password">sj3u493</param>
    </configuration>
  </block>
  <block uri="cob:mycompany.com/repositories/email/exchange/3.2.1" 
wire-id="394781274834">
    <configuration>
      <param name="host">mail.blah.org</param>
    </configuration>
  </block>
  <block uri="cob:yetanothercompany.com/skins/fancy/1.2.2" 
wire-id="947384127832"/>
  <block uri="cob:mycompany.com/skins/corporate/34.3.345" 
wire-id="746394782637"/>
</blocks>

Wiki'd here: http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=BlocksWiring

For sake of discussion, I recorded a wire-id instead of the location. 
Can blocks be in other locations other than WEB-INF/blocks/{$wire-id} ?

I also considered recording the wire-id instead of the uri for 
connections between blocks - what are the arguments for each?

<connection> was out of the blue using the wiring metaphore.  Other 
options?  Free association: connect, attach, solder, wire, use ...
Avalon Phoenix uses the words "assembly" and "provide" instead of
"wiring" and "connection", which I quite like (I mean the assembly &
provide).
I don't quite see where these terms would be used - can you explain a 
little more?  Maybe a proposed set of changes to the example above?

Geoff