2009/4/22 David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com>: > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:16 AM, James Strachan <james.strac...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> 2009/4/22 David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com>: >> > James, >> > >> > This is an interesting idea that more than one person has expressed >> > excitement about. Jorge Ortiz (one of the Lift committers) was >> > puttering >> > around with the separation of Lift's templating from the rest of Lift. >> > Personally, I think it's a pretty daunting task because a lot of the >> > ways >> > that Lift looks for templates and does its wiring and looks for snippets >> > and >> > generally re-writes the XML (e.g., to insert the Comet JavaScript), is >> > woven >> > tightly with the rest of Lift (e.g., LiftRules, LiftSession, etc.) >> > >> > I am in favor of something like this happening, but I really think it's >> > non-trivial. >> > >> > Perhaps... just perhaps... we could do something where we put Java >> > wrappers >> > around some of the Lift-isms and use Lift as Filter in Java apps. If >> > you'd >> > care to fork the Lift repository on GitHub and recruit a few others to >> > help >> > you, this could be an interesting side-project that, if successful, I >> > could >> > see as part of the main Lift distribution. >> >> Cool thanks. >> >> BTW I don't much mind about ripping the template stuff out of Lift >> into a separate piece - I am totally happy to have >> LiftRules/LiftSession, Comet et al there and to keep Lift intact. >> >> I guess all I really want is a way to render a NodeSeq which can >> contain <lift:surround> and other arbitrary snippets inside. So all I >> really want is another entry point into Lift other than the >> filter/servlet where somehow I can do something like this... >> >> LiftServlet.render(xhtml:NodeSeq, out:OutputStream) > > Would: > > LiftServlet.render(xhtml:NodeSeq, httpRequest: HttpServletRequest): > LiftResponse > > work along with helper methods to stream a LiftResponse out to an > OutputStream work?
That would be perfect, yes please! :) -- James ------- http://macstrac.blogspot.com/ Open Source Integration http://fusesource.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
