Hi Kamal
One of the items on my (long) list of jobs to get done, in my re-
working of CForms/Dojo is compression/minifying/packaging etc.
There are a number of different scenarios that I can imagine people
will want to for it, but TBH, I have not thought it all through yet ....
1) development : uncompressed/un-minified, each 'class' loads separately
2) production (a) : single compressed/minified js file containing just
the dojo and cforms code to support one cform, application or site.
3) production (b) : single compressed/minified js file containing just
the cforms code to support one cform, application or site, with dojo
loaded from CDN.
4) production (c) : load everything from CDN (i.e. arrange to put
versionned CForms JS in eg. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/) no
idea if they'd be up for it .....
As I said, I have not looked into this very closely yet, but I assumed
the first level of support would be documentation on how to use Dojo's
built-in compressor within Cocoon manually, with support in the XSLT
to allow a developer to specify a specific js file to load instead of
all of individual dojo/cforms.
I think you need a config file to drive dojo's compressor. It would be
interesting to see if this could be automated by a maven or ant build
task.
regards Jeremy
On 12 Jul 2008, at 05:24, Kamal wrote:
Hi,
It occured to me that Cocoon could probably benefit from a
Javascript Reader. This JS Reader would do what a normal resource
reader would, unless the user specifies a compression-method
parameter. If the compression method is supported, then the JS will
be compressed. Right now, I think we can only use JSMin[1] or
Package[4], as Dojo ShrinkSafe[2] and YUI compressor [3] rely on
custom version of Rhino. Packer [4] is written in plain old
javascript. JSMin and Packer are open source, but it is not
distributed on any Maven repositories that I can see, so we would
need to include them in source.
This would be useful for the (very large) JS dependencies in CForms
(though, it could be argued that we should be bundling the already
compressed version of Dojo and the other Cocoon JS files).
I, personally, would find something like this really useful as we
have lots of code that we like to keep uncompressed for development,
but compress at runtime.
What does everyone think? I don't mind coding this up (using just
JSMin).
Apologies if something like this already exists.
Cheers.
[1] http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.html
[2] http://dojotoolkit.org/docs/shrinksafe
[3] http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/
[4] http://dean.edwards.name/packer/src/
