Re: A virtual url space?

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:12:56 +1100, Robert Leftwich wrote:

> At 01:07 PM 23/03/2003, Kevin O'Neill wrote:
>>The thing I love most about cocoon is the ability to have a virtual url
>>space that allows for urls like /app/users/kevin/edit.html rather than he
>>more traditional /app/users/edit.xxx?user=kevin.
>>
>>Is maverick able to do the former. If not is anyone else interested in
>>adding a dispatcher subclass that allows this?
> 
> I'm currently using a simple Dispatcher subclass that supports this by
> allowing you to specify mappings using a regex, e.g. you can match
> /app/users/* to the edit command by calling
> addCommandMatch(".*/app/users/.+", "edit"). Note that I don't use the .m
> extension for commands and have my servlet container setup to support this
> and I am also using REST [1] as the basis for my current project, so the
> dispatcher also adds the Http method to the name of the command i.e. doing
> an HTTP GET on /invoices/invoice01234 after an
> addCommandMatch(".*/invoice.+", "invoice") will return a command name of
> GetInvoice and similarly an HTTP DELETE will result in a command of
> DeleteInvoice, etc..
> 
> I'd be happy to let you have a copy of it (and its unit test) if you'd
> like, just drop me a line.

This sounds very interesting. I'd love to take a look.

-k.
 
> Robert
> 
> 1. http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi/FrontPage as a starting
> point
> 
> 
> 
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