[web] Make default template customization for level 0 users simpler
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Key: LABS-395
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LABS-395
Project: Labs
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Magma
Affects Versions: Current
Reporter: Simone Gianni
Fix For: Next
Currently Magma offers quite a large degree of template customization.
A template is composed of a java class that aggregates contents and an HTML
file that styles it (eventually with its css files and other resources).
Moreover, the templates must be "pushed into play" by using an aspect. Either a
simple one installing the new template as the default one, or a more complex
one using the specified template only under specific circumstances (like a
certain part of the site).
Writing a java class and an aspect is beyond the user 0 abilities, and is
generally a pain when people first arrive to Magma.
It would be quite simple to make it easier to customize the default template,
given that each fragment adds (or will add) stuff to it by default.
Following steps may take place :
- CSS only customization
... creating a custom.css file, perform customization of the default template
CSS
... creating a template.css file, overwrite default template CSS completely
- HTML and CSS customization
... creating a template.html file, overwrite the default template completely,
meaning also different CSS files might be picked up
- JAVA customization
... creating a Template.java class, override the default template aggregation
Apparently the only missing thing is the aspect, in reality the thing goes a
bit beyond that and relies on resource precedence.
- The DefaultTemplate should by default use a custom.css file if present, that
way if the user provides it on the classpath it will override template settings.
- The template.html and template.css files currently used should be moved
(together with the newly created custom.css) to a simpler place on the
classpath, instead of org/apache/magma/website/template
- The getDefaultTemplate method should look for a Template class, again in a
simpler "package", and use that instead of the DefaultTemplate if found.
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