Re: Re: Sitemesh buffering undecorated content

-1 to another filter, not user-friendly enough.
+1 to adding to sitemesh.xml (you're right about decorators.xml).


On 5/18/04 3:18 AM, "Chris Miller" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah I think we can improve on the current inclusive-only filter
> url-patterns. I somehow manange to find myself in situations all the
> time where I kick, curse & scream because I can't exclude a path or two.
> I feel you shouldn't have to structure your directories a certain way
> just because of a Sitemesh (well OK, Servlet spec ;-) limitation.
> 
> The reason decorators.xml doesn't quite work (and please correct me if
> I'm wrong since I'm not 100% sure about this) is that decorators.xml is
> in fact specific to ConfigDecoratorMapper. It's quite possible that
> someone doesn't even have ConfigDecoratorMapper specified in
> sitemesh.xml, and besides quite a few of the Mappers ignore the path
> mapping completely (eg PageDecoratorMapper, CookieDecoratorMapper, ...)
> and do their own thing based on the contents of the request and/or page
> object. We need to decide not to decorate before the page object is
> created (this was my original motivation for the mightDecorate() approach).
> 
> Mike suggested via email that we could just add another filter that does
> the exclusions (it would just set FILTER_APPLIED). Tempting because it's
> a very simple fix! Seems a bit clunky to have two filters for Sitemesh
> though.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hani Suleiman wrote:
>> Hm, the way I deal with this is to only specify the filter on the resources
>> I care about (eg, *.action, *.jsp, *.html). Although I spose that isn't good
>> enough as the filter url's are inclusive rather than exclusive, so aren't
>> expressive enough.
>> 
>> So yeah, +1 for adding exclusions to sitemesh.xml, with same syntax and
>> rules using PathMapper. What's the argument to throw at people who will one
>> day ask why they can't specify it in decorators.xml again?
> 
> 
> 
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