On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 18:44, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> I forgot to menton the alternative which is to create a WebAppVelocityFactory 
> component impl (hint = "webapp"), in the same manner that I have already 
> created WebAppVelocityConfiguration and WebAppVelocityEngine.
>
> I think my preference foes to the API modification now.

WebAppVelocityFactory sounds nicer but I don't know very well this
subject so I think I will trust you on that.

Here is a +0.5 ;)

>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
> On Mar 2, 2011, at 4:49 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>
>> ok I have no added the following 2 new component impls:
>> * WebAppVelocityConfiguration
>> * WebAppVelocityEngine
>>
>> However it's not enough since DefaultVelocityEngine.createVelocityEngine() 
>> does a component lookup on VelocityEngine and we need a way for it to look 
>> up with a passed hint.
>>
>> I'm proposing to modify the current VelocityFactory API from:
>>
>>    VelocityEngine createVelocityEngine(String key, Properties properties) 
>> throws XWikiVelocityException;
>>
>> to:
>>
>>    VelocityEngine createVelocityEngine(String key, Properties properties, 
>> String engineType) throws XWikiVelocityException;
>>
>> where engineType is the hint corresponding to the engine to look up.
>>
>> Then DefaultVelocityManager can call VelocityFactory, passing the "webapp" 
>> hint to createVelocityEngine.
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
>> On Mar 2, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>>
>>> Just a heads up of what I'm working on right now: cleaning up 
>>> xwiki-velocity dependencies.
>>>
>>> I'm going to split it into several submodules:
>>> * xwiki-velocity-management (or xwiki-velocity-jmx)
>>> * xwiki-velocity-default
>>> * xwiki-velocity-webapp (implementation of VelocityEngine and 
>>> VelocityConfiguration with hint = "webapp",  this is to use use velocity 
>>> with the WebappResourceLoader loading templates from the webapp's root dir)
>>>
>>> -Vincent
>>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> devs mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
>



-- 
Thomas Mortagne
_______________________________________________
devs mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

Reply via email to