See
http://showcase.omnifaces.org/facesviews/ExtensionlessURLs
Cheers, B
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Kito Mann <kito.mann_at_virtua.com> wrote:
> Hello Arjan,
>
> Can you explain the FaceViews feature in OmniFaces?
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> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 6:38 PM, arjan tijms <arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The ServletContext has a method to acquire all paths to resources within
>> a web application; getResourcePaths().
>>
>> In JSF resources are handled by the ResourceResolver. This has a method
>> createViewResource that takes a path and effectively returns a URL, just
>> like ServletContext has a getResource method taking a path and returning a
>> URL.
>>
>> In both cases, the usage is to abstract the actual location of resources,
>> which could therefor transparently be on a local or remote filesystem, in a
>> database, custom jar location, or whatever.
>>
>> The JSF specific ResourceResolver however does not have a
>> getResourcePaths() equivalent. I'd like to propose to rectify this by
>> introducing such method for JSF view resources.
>>
>> Since we're targeting JDK 8 such method could take inspiration from
>> Files#walk (
>> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/nio/file/Files.html#walk-java.nio.file.Path-java.nio.file.FileVisitOption...-
>> )
>>
>> At least one use case would be for something like the FaceViews feature
>> in OmniFaces, but I'd like to design this feature not just for that, of
>> course. Another use case for instance would be for help in debugging
>> (providing a list of all resources handled by the system could be handy to
>> check for omissions or unexpected entries)
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Arjan Tijms
>>
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