Re: Need your suggestion on this,

damar thapa <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.enhydra.barracuda.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Jake,

Thanks for your prompt response.

Jacob Kjome wrote:

>
> Hi Damar,
>
> Hopefully I'm understanding the question.  It seems to me that your 
> header and footer would be pretty much the same on the various pages, 
> right?  So, then why deal with the header/footer stuff in every model?  

Yes, you are right.

> You don't have to cram all your model logic into a single model.  You 
> can have separate models for dealing with headers and footers and then 
> have more specific models that deal with the main contents of a page.  
> You might want to try compile-time SSI (server side includes) also to 
> simplify this process somewhat.
>
> Does that help?   Have a model that deals with header and/or footer 
> information and have other models that deal with the main content of 
> your pages.

As a novice, I still do not know the implementation detail. Can you 
please show me some code examples?

Thanks.

Damar

>
> Jake
>
> At 11:17 PM 4/10/2003 +0800, you wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have shown the snapshot of my MyPage.html, Header.html, and 
>> MyPageModel class of MyPage.java following this message.  MyPage.java 
>> basically
>> combines Header.html, Footer.html, and other html files into 
>> MyPage.html, and is working fine.
>> To add a new page of similar kind, say Page1, I copied MyPage.java to 
>> Page1.java and MyPage.html to Page1.html. In Page1.java,class name 
>> changed to Page1(and other relevant changes),and in Page1.html, all 
>> "Dir::Get_Data.MyPage.???" became "Dir::Get_Data.Page1.???" (id 
>> became "Page1" etc).
>>
>> But,I have a problem with Header.html's "Dir::Get_Data.MyPage.Link1" 
>> (a BLink). To make it work for Page1, I have to
>> change it to "Dir::Get_Data.Page1.Link1", I guess,which means I may 
>> have to have separate Header.html file for each new pages
>> (not good approach, since Header.html is supposed to be for sharing). 
>>
>> How can solve this problem,or am not to use Blink, but directly use 
>> <a href="somedomain.com/~link1" in Header.html file?
>>
>> Or can I do something in Page1.java within "if(key.equals("Link1")" 
>> to make it work?
>> Any pointers would be highly appreciated.
>>
>> Damar
>>
>>
>> ======Start of MyPage.html======
>>
>> !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
>> [Header]
>> [Footer]
>>
>> ====Start of Header.html=====
>>
>>
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
>>
>> =====start of MyPage.java ============
>>
>> class MyPageModel extends AbstractTemplateModel {
>>    
>>         //register the model by name
>>         public String getName() {
>>             return "MyPage";
>>         }
>>        
>>         //provide items by key
>>         public Object getItem(String key) {
>>             ViewContext vc = getViewContext();
>>             if (key.equals("Title")) return "MyPage Title";
>>             else if (key.equals("Header")){
>>                 XMLObject header =
>> xmlcFactory.create(mypage.presentation.HeaderHTML.class);
>>                 Node headerNode = header.getElementById("header");
>>                 return 
>> vc.getElementFactory().getDocument().importNode(headerNode, true);
>>                 }
>>            
>>             else if (key.equals("Footer")) {
>>                 XMLObject footer =
>> xmlcFactory.create(mypage.presentation.FooterHTML.class);
>>                 Node footerNode = footer.getElementById("footer");
>>                 return 
>> vc.getElementFactory().getDocument().importNode(footerNode, true);
>>             }
>>             
>>                 else if(key.equals("Link1")){
>>                         BLink blink1 = new
>>                         BLink("","http://somedomain.com/~link1 
>> <http://somedomain.com/%7Elink1>", vc);
>>                         return blink1;
>>                 }
>>
>>                 
>>                 else return super.getItem(key);
>>         }
>>     }
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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