Re: [Bodington-developers] Plugin interface

[Alistair Y. <ali...@sm...>]

It's just too complicated for me Matthew, plus I don't want anything  
to do with Facility! My Modules is not a facility so it shouldn't  
subclass it. We're still being hoodwinked by the template processor.  
I want to call any class, not just Facility.

Look into my eyes, not around the eyes, into them.... there is no  
Facility :)

If My Modules is useful for someone, they would add the <plugin ... / 
 > tag to their template and get the functionality. If they hadn't  
installed the plugin, they'd get an error message. Can't see anything  
wrong with that.

I think we're keeping our templates in our cvs rather than sf. We  
just need a hook into Facility to display our stuff. Of course, if a  
template can call any class we wouldn't need the hook.

I think we're only having this conversation coz Facility rules the  
roost in bod. It should be deposed, now!

Alistair

On 23 Mar 2006, at 10:37, Matthew Buckett wrote:

> Alistair Young wrote:
>> Bodders, I've been delurked, damn, to ask opinions.
>>
>> We have a requirement for My Modules, which is specific to us so  
>> we don't
>> want to pollute Facility. However, a template must call facility  
>> to get it
>> to write stuff to the screen.
>
> How about using the existing Bodington facility for doing this that is
> used for the Recycle building? So you:
>
> Subclass Facility - Create
>   public class UhiFacility extends Facility .... adding the Uhi  
> specific
> functionality.
>
> For the changes to the template create a new template style
> /tomcatadd/webapps/bodington/templates/style_1/ and copy and change  
> any
> templates that need to be different for the UHI code.
>
> Edit the bodington-defaults and replace references to Facility with
> UhiFacility.
>
> Change the database so that the style of the root resource is 1 so  
> that
> templates are first loaded from the UHI template folder (style_1).
>
> The only problem that I can see at the moment is that for Facility
> subclasses they still extend the standard facility so things like
> questionnaire facility wouldn't have the extra UHI functionality.
>
> -- 
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