Thanks!
I vote +1. This could be handy in cases where you want to return several
resources from a special location (such as a database).
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On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 7:05 AM, Bauke Scholtz <balusc_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> See http://showcase.omnifaces.org/facesviews/ExtensionlessURLs
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> 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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