On Dec 21, 2005, at 9:52 PM, M. Purbo wrote:
I'm trying to make roller to display all weblog entries in a usual
paginated page, e.g. like google search result. Something like:
...
2. if i do have to customize the source code, is the following steps
are
the right way to go (in general):
2.1. extends/customize PageModel
2.2. extends/customize BasePageServlet
2.3. create my own vm library (e.g. with macros for nextPage, prevPage,
etc.) that calls the customized PageModel
2.4. create a theme using this vm library
That looks correct.
3. is it a wise thing to do at all (to customize roller). or is it
safer
just to make a seperate web-app/action that would read directly from
roller database, and display it using JSP, for example.
I think you'll want to customize Roller. Where possible, you should
keep your code separate from Roller.
For example, put your source code in:
sandbox/pagination/src
And then tell Roller's build to compile it by adding this to
custom/custom-src-web.xmlf:
<src dir="${basedir}/sandbox/pagination/src" />
And put your web files (e.g. velocity scripts) in a web dir structure
under:
sandbox/pagination/web
And then tell Roller's build to included it by adding this to
custom/custom-web.xmlf:
<copy todir="${build.stage_web}" overwrite="true">
<fileset dir="${basedir}/sandbox/pagination/web">
<include name="**/**" />
</fileset>
</copy>
If you extend PageModel, tell Roller to use your new one by setting the
property:
velocity.pagemodel.classname=
Hope that helps.
If you'd like to contribute this work to Roller: the custom for larger
changes
(like this one) is to write a short proposal on the wiki, then submit a
patch
for our review.
- Dave
