Static files in other places than /static/* without modifying WEB-INF/web.xml ?

> we want to distribute our static files > inside our module, in a synopsx/files/ directory, [...]

and of course we don't > want to ask people to modify the static path declaration in their > WEB-INF/web.xml file to use our module. > It works perfectly in your dba module : for exemple in dba/modules/tmpl.xqm, > the created html element calls files/js.js or files/style.css and it simply > works... But not in ours : we get this "No function matches the request" > error because these files pathes are interpreted as restxq pathes (which > sounds reasonable, but why not in yours ?) > We are know trying more and more complicated things that don't work neither, > like in > https://github.com/mingarao/synopsx/blob/dev/webapp/synopsx/_restxq/files.xqm > line 37... > So I think we should better stop there and ask you : what's the trick in dba > ? > All the best ! > Maud and the AHN/SynopsX people > > -- > > « Ne travaillez jamais » > > Maud Ingarao > IHPC (UMR 5037) > Institut d’histoire de la pensée classique, de l’Humanisme aux Lumières > Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon - Site Descartes - Bureau R322 > 15 Parvis René Descartes - BP7000 - 69342 Lyon CEDEX 07 > +33 4 37 37 65 79 - maud.ingarao at ens-lyon.fr > > Je suis absente le jeudi | Out of office on Thursdays > > http://pensee-classique.ens-lyon.fr > http://institutdesanti.ens-lyon.fr > http://ahn.ens-lyon.fr > http://www.mutec-shs.fr > http://cahier.hypotheses.org

On 19/02/2015 11:08, Christian Grün wrote: > Hi Maud, > > We are glad to hear that the DBA code serves as a good inspiration! > After all, I think this should be its primary purpose. The way how we > integrate user components like buttons or tables is a bit unorthodox; > this may be simplified in a future version. > >> we want to distribute our static files >> inside our module, in a synopsx/files/ directory, [...] > In the DBA code, we solved this by creating a custom <rest:response> > element for all files starting with the path "dba/files". I have > slightly simplified the current code; please see here [1] how it's > done! The web:mime-type($path) function calls an internal BaseX > function to retrieve the content type of the response [2]; there may > be a new XQuery function for that in future as well. We could even > think about providing an XQuery function for everything that's > happening in [1]. > > More feedback is welcome, > Christian > > [1] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/master/basex-api/src/main/webapp/dba/util.xqm#L23-L46 > [2] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/master/basex-api/src/main/webapp/dba/modules/web.xqm#L38-L47 > > > > and of course we don't >> want to ask people to modify the static path declaration in their >> WEB-INF/web.xml file to use our module. >> It works perfectly in your dba module : for exemple in dba/modules/tmpl.xqm, >> the created html element calls files/js.js or files/style.css and it simply >> works... But not in ours : we get this "No function matches the request" >> error because these files pathes are interpreted as restxq pathes (which >> sounds reasonable, but why not in yours ?) >> We are know trying more and more complicated things that don't work neither, >> like in >> https://github.com/mingarao/synopsx/blob/dev/webapp/synopsx/_restxq/files.xqm >> line 37... >> So I think we should better stop there and ask you : what's the trick in dba >> ? >> All the best ! >> Maud and the AHN/SynopsX people >> >> -- >> >> « Ne travaillez jamais » >> >> Maud Ingarao >> IHPC (UMR 5037) >> Institut d’histoire de la pensée classique, de l’Humanisme aux Lumières >> Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon - Site Descartes - Bureau R322 >> 15 Parvis René Descartes - BP7000 - 69342 Lyon CEDEX 07 >> +33 4 37 37 65 79 - maud.ingarao at ens-lyon.fr >> >> Je suis absente le jeudi | Out of office on Thursdays >> >> http://pensee-classique.ens-lyon.fr >> http://institutdesanti.ens-lyon.fr >> http://ahn.ens-lyon.fr >> http://www.mutec-shs.fr >> http://cahier.hypotheses.org

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Christian Grün <christian.gruen at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Maud, > > We are glad to hear that the DBA code serves as a good inspiration! > After all, I think this should be its primary purpose. The way how we > integrate user components like buttons or tables is a bit unorthodox; > this may be simplified in a future version. > >> we want to distribute our static files >> inside our module, in a synopsx/files/ directory, [...] > > In the DBA code, we solved this by creating a custom <rest:response> > element for all files starting with the path "dba/files". I have > slightly simplified the current code; please see here [1] how it's > done! The web:mime-type($path) function calls an internal BaseX > function to retrieve the content type of the response [2]; there may > be a new XQuery function for that in future as well. We could even > think about providing an XQuery function for everything that's > happening in [1]. > > More feedback is welcome, > Christian > > [1] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/master/basex-api/src/main/webapp/dba/util.xqm#L23-L46 > [2] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/master/basex-api/src/main/webapp/dba/modules/web.xqm#L38-L47 > > > > and of course we don't >> want to ask people to modify the static path declaration in their >> WEB-INF/web.xml file to use our module. >> It works perfectly in your dba module : for exemple in dba/modules/tmpl.xqm, >> the created html element calls files/js.js or files/style.css and it simply >> works... But not in ours : we get this "No function matches the request" >> error because these files pathes are interpreted as restxq pathes (which >> sounds reasonable, but why not in yours ?) >> We are know trying more and more complicated things that don't work neither, >> like in >> https://github.com/mingarao/synopsx/blob/dev/webapp/synopsx/_restxq/files.xqm >> line 37... >> So I think we should better stop there and ask you : what's the trick in dba >> ? >> All the best ! >> Maud and the AHN/SynopsX people >> >> -- >> >> « Ne travaillez jamais » >> >> Maud Ingarao >> IHPC (UMR 5037) >> Institut d’histoire de la pensée classique, de l’Humanisme aux Lumières >> Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon - Site Descartes - Bureau R322 >> 15 Parvis René Descartes - BP7000 - 69342 Lyon CEDEX 07 >> +33 4 37 37 65 79 - maud.ingarao at ens-lyon.fr >> >> Je suis absente le jeudi | Out of office on Thursdays >> >> http://pensee-classique.ens-lyon.fr >> http://institutdesanti.ens-lyon.fr >> http://ahn.ens-lyon.fr >> http://www.mutec-shs.fr >> http://cahier.hypotheses.org

> I also would like to see a way of doing efficient static file serving > from within a module but then there should be a way of excluding this > static file directory from the search for RESTXQ and other XQuery code > because one could then just put a nasty XQuery file in such a static > directory and affect server performance or even do nasty things.

> > --Marc > > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Christian Grün > <christian.gruen at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Maud, >> >> We are glad to hear that the DBA code serves as a good inspiration! >> After all, I think this should be its primary purpose. The way how we >> integrate user components like buttons or tables is a bit unorthodox; >> this may be simplified in a future version. >> >>> we want to distribute our static files >>> inside our module, in a synopsx/files/ directory, [...] >> >> In the DBA code, we solved this by creating a custom <rest:response> >> element for all files starting with the path "dba/files". I have >> slightly simplified the current code; please see here [1] how it's >> done! The web:mime-type($path) function calls an internal BaseX >> function to retrieve the content type of the response [2]; there may >> be a new XQuery function for that in future as well. We could even >> think about providing an XQuery function for everything that's >> happening in [1]. >> >> More feedback is welcome, >> Christian >> >> [1] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/master/basex-api/src/main/webapp/dba/util.xqm#L23-L46 >> [2] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/master/basex-api/src/main/webapp/dba/modules/web.xqm#L38-L47 >> >> >> >> and of course we don't >>> want to ask people to modify the static path declaration in their >>> WEB-INF/web.xml file to use our module. >>> It works perfectly in your dba module : for exemple in dba/modules/tmpl.xqm, >>> the created html element calls files/js.js or files/style.css and it simply >>> works... But not in ours : we get this "No function matches the request" >>> error because these files pathes are interpreted as restxq pathes (which >>> sounds reasonable, but why not in yours ?) >>> We are know trying more and more complicated things that don't work neither, >>> like in >>> https://github.com/mingarao/synopsx/blob/dev/webapp/synopsx/_restxq/files.xqm >>> line 37... >>> So I think we should better stop there and ask you : what's the trick in dba >>> ? >>> All the best ! >>> Maud and the AHN/SynopsX people >>> >>> -- >>> >>> « Ne travaillez jamais » >>> >>> Maud Ingarao >>> IHPC (UMR 5037) >>> Institut d’histoire de la pensée classique, de l’Humanisme aux Lumières >>> Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon - Site Descartes - Bureau R322 >>> 15 Parvis René Descartes - BP7000 - 69342 Lyon CEDEX 07 >>> +33 4 37 37 65 79 - maud.ingarao at ens-lyon.fr >>> >>> Je suis absente le jeudi | Out of office on Thursdays >>> >>> http://pensee-classique.ens-lyon.fr >>> http://institutdesanti.ens-lyon.fr >>> http://ahn.ens-lyon.fr >>> http://www.mutec-shs.fr >>> http://cahier.hypotheses.org > > > > -- > --Marc