Re: [Erlyaws-list] Greedy appmods

[Moe A. <mo...@di...>]

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:31:50 +0200, Claes Wikstrom <kl...@ta...> wrote:
>Moe Aboulkheir wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Yaws looks great, though i'm not really a fan of the JSP way of doing 
>>things and so am planning to use appmods for all of the resources in my 
>>application.  One problem I see is that application modules are greedy with 
>>path segments.  I understand this was intended as a feature, but it would 
>>make my life a lot easier if I could work around it.  Do I need to hack the 
>>source, or did i miss something?
>
>What do you mean by "greedy" here.

I mean that at appmod at /foo will assimilate any path of which that is a prefix.  It's an awful solution, but what I did to solve this was adding a rewrite rule that converts slashes (except the leading and possibly trailing ones) in paths into colons if the path does not start with /static, so /shopping-cart/foo/ becomes /shopping-cart:foo/, so i can add my appmods as:

{"/shopping-cart", shopping_cart}, {"/shopping-cart:foo", foo}

I looked at the source, but i'm very new to erlang and didn't feel comfortable changing anything.

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Moe Aboulkheir