Re: 4.1 config file path migration question

I took the lazy way out and copied the FilesystemResourceLocator code to 
create my own non-deprecated version of it.  ;-)

On 2019-10-12 11:22 a.m., Andrew Willerding wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>