Re: [Bodington-developers] Plugin interface

[Jon M. <jo...@te...>]

Alistair Young wrote:

>> You won't be going near Facility.
>
> I know Jon but I'll be going somewhere I don't want to go - half  
> hidden servlets - that's not what servlets are designed for.

It is one of the things that servlets were designed for see the method;


    ServletContext.getNamedDispatcher(String name)

(http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/api/javax/servlet/ServletContext.html)

>
>> I think it can be done without adding any new tag types to the  
>> template DTD
>
> and I think it can ... just different ways of looking at the problem.  
> My view is influenced by JSPs/taglibs,your's by bod internals.

No, I'm not thinking of Bod at all - 'including' is a standard thing 
that servlets do.

>
>> out.print( "<P>here's another 400 paragraphs of HTML</P>" );
>
> that's how bod works though!

It's not how bod templates work.

> I don't think I'm getting anywhere now although it's been an  
> interesting ride getting there.

Just trying to help! I'm not going to say go ahead with your plugin tag 
(which I don't personally object to) because I'm not going to be 
affected by the consequences - that's down to the other developers to 
comment.  I'm just suggesting a method they can't easily object to 
because it doesn't involve more that a line or two of changes to the 
Bodington source code - to make the ServletContext available to the 
template so you can call getNamedDispatcher( "myModules" ).include( 
request, response ).  I don't think that's a bodge or a workaround - 
it's basically the same as what you're proposing but compliant with the 
servlet spec - i.e. you could use it perfectly well outside of Bodington.

Jon