Thank you Rahul. In fact we were investigating the possibility of having our own protocol handlers, but we noticed that the resolve() method of PathResolver returned a string, not an URL. What did you have in mind?
2011/6/7 Rahul Akolkar <rahul.akol...@gmail.com> > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Dario D <darac1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Would it be possible to have a PathResolver implementation which treats > the > > "src" element as a pointer to a database entry where content is stored, > or > > an in-memory object? Of course, I could make a PathResolver > implementation > > which will parse the value of "src" make a query to the database, > download > > the content to a file, and then return file path as the result of the > > resolvePath() method. However, I would like to skip the step of making a > > file on the disk just for the purpose of loading the "src" content. > Ideally, > > this PathResolver implementation would be able to read content directly > from > > a memory object (perhaps a cache of some sort), without the need of > creating > > a file. I'm planning to use SCXML in a high-throughtput environment and I > > feel that writing files on the disk and then reading them back will slow > the > > process down a bit. > > > > One of the requirements for the application is to be able to split SCXML > > files into many reusable modules, thus the need to use the "src" element. > > > > Any thoughts? > <snip/> > > Requirement is reasonable, my suggestion would be to investigate using > your own scheme for the resolved URLs and providing a custom stream > protocol handler that reads from memory or cache as desired. For more > on how to do this, see the java.net.URL class docs, in particular, the > portion here: > > > http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/net/URL.html#URL(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String,%20int,%20java.lang.String) > > Separately, you should be aware that the src attribute has been > removed from the SCXML spec in favor of standard techniques like > XInclude, though Commons SCXML will continue to support it till the > next major release. > > -Rahul > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org > >
