Re: 4.1 config file path migration question

Thank you John.  This seems like a lot of work for something that seems 
to work so simply now and is easy to read/implement in one line of code.

Does the FilesystemResourceLocator really need to be removed?  It seems 
like a very nice "helper" object to me.


On 2019-10-11 10:13 a.m., John Huss wrote:
> You'll have to subclass ResourceLocator and implement it:
>
>      /**
>
>       * Finds a collection of matching resources for a given name. The name
> components must
>
>       * be separated by forward slashes.
>
>       */
>
>      Collection<Resource> findResources(String name);
>
>
>
> For example, The name portion could just be the file name
> "cayenne-blah.xml", and your subclass could hardcode the directory path.
> The logic could be copied from FilesystemResourceLocator:
>
>
>              File resourceFile = *new* File(root, name);
>
>              *if* (resourceFile.exists()) {
>
>                  *try* {
>
>                      resources.add(*new* URLResource(resourceFile
> .toURI().toURL()));
>
>                  }
>
>                  *catch* (MalformedURLException e) {
>
>                      *throw* *new* CayenneRuntimeException("Can't convert
> file to URL: %s", e,  resourceFile.getAbsolutePath());
>
>                  }
>
>              }
>
>
>
> Binding it using DI looks like this:
>
>
>          // a locator of resources, such as XML descriptors
>
>          binder.bind(ResourceLocator.*class*).to(MyResourceLocator.*class*);
>
>          binder.bind(Key.*get*(ResourceLocator.*class*, Constants.
> *SERVER_RESOURCE_LOCATOR*)).to(MyResourceLocator.*class*);
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 8:57 AM Andrew Willerding <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I have hopefully a quick question on how Cayenne can be configured to
>> use a configuration file outside of a JAR/WAR.
>>
>> I currently use this to reference an absolute file path for my Cayenne
>> files but I see that FilesystemResourceLocator is now deprecated ...
>>
>>               Module myModule = (org.apache.cayenne.di.Binder binder) -> {
>>                   binder.bind(ResourceLocator.class).toInstance(new
>> FilesystemResourceLocator(filePathForCayenne));
>>                   ...
>>
>> What is the "new" way to replicate the same functionality.  The
>> deprecated notes just provide the same example I'm already using.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>>
>>