Re: Maverick - Multiple shunt-factories

I agree that the docs should be finished at some point, however 
documentation will never replace simply looking at the code. Maverick 
is a very small framework (lines of code) and rather easy to follow.

-- Mike

On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 12:32 AM, Stefan Beekman wrote:

> That was exactly my idea as well.
> It would help me a lot with expanding the standard Maverick 
> framework!!!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eelco Hillenius [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: woensdag 9 april 2003 9:23
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Mav-user] Maverick - Multiple shunt-factories
>
>
> Maybe it's a good idea to complete the documentation (remove the 
> TODO's)?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Schnitzer,
> Jeff
> Sent: dinsdag 8 april 2003 23:12
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Mav-user] Maverick - Multiple shunt-factories
>
>
> The mechanism is very simple - views can have a mode attribute, which 
> is
> an arbitrary string of your definition.  At runtime, the Shunt picks 
> one
> of the modes based on characteristics of the request.  Your Shunt
> implementation can interpret modes in any way you choose.
>
> You might or might not want to try to build a composite Shunt.  My 
> guess
> is that you will probably be better off with a single custom shunt that
> encompasses all of your logic.  The problem with trying to generalize a
> composite shunt is the defaulting logic:
>
> <view mode="lang:en,browser:ie" .../>
> <view mode="lang:de,browser:ie" .../>
>
> ...what do you do if the browser is IE but the lang is ch?  Maybe you
> could just require a view to be defined for every default, but once you
> hit 3 or more different variables then you have many many default
> cases...
>
> Since Shunts are simple to write, you're probably best off just writing
> a custom shunt anytime you need complex logic.
>
> Jeff Schnitzer
> [email protected]
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stefan Beekman [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 1:01 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [Mav-user] Maverick - Multiple shunt-factories
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> First of all I want to address that I am new to this list and
> relatively
>> new
>> to Java.
>> Before dropping this message, I searched the Maverick list archives,
> but
>> couldn't find satisfying answers.
>> Hopefully you can help me.
>>
>> We want to use the Maverick framework to develop the presentation
> layer of
>> our application.
>>
>> Maverick comes with a LanguageShuntFactory, which enables you to make
> a
>> language dependend application.
>> Depending on the preferred language in the http header this class
> returns
>> the appropriate view.
>>
>> What I would like to do now is to add an extra "shunt-factory" to make
> the
>> website also dependend on a second (or even third) paramater, for
> example
>> a
>> customer or department name.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to achieve this and how to configure the
> maverick.xml
>> file?
>> Do I have to extend(subclass) the standard LanguageShuntFactory with
> the
>> additional dependencies or should I create extra Factories for every
>> dependency I want to use?
>> How must the maverick.xml file be configured? Should I nest the
> modules?
>> Or
>> create the two- or three-dimensional dependencies by transforming the
>> maverick.xml file with a XSLT file?
>>
>> If anyone has hints or done this before, your help would be
> appreciated!
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Stefan Beekman
>> Consultant
>> _________________________________________
>> LogicaCMG
>>
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