Re: [Cppcms-users] Compile templates into several "view libraries"

[Artyom B. <art...@gm...>]

Yes plugin can,

Take a look there:
http://cppcms.com/wikipp/en/page/cppcms_1_2_plugin_api

In general you can compile view together with the plugin an load it
dynamically

Artyom


On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 3:19 AM <jo...@em...> wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
>
>
> I am starting to prepare a skeleton for a larger web-platform we’re
> planning to build that will be based on CppCMS.
>
>
>
> Due to the size of the application I want to split different modules into
> different modules.
>
> To illustrate this, imagine something like a collaboration platform. It
> has different functionalities such as:
>
>    - Task management
>    - Repository/code management
>    - Knowledge base / Wiki
>    - Q & A
>    - Chats
>    - …
>
>
>
> From a code structural point of view I’d like each of these features to be
> plugins in forms of shared libraries (*.so, *.dll, *.dynlib, …).
>
> The main application will provide a plugin interface to implement the
> different functionalities.
>
> To achieve this properly, a plugin should be able to provide everything
> including the various views (compiled CppCMS templates). The main
> application will then load the plugins and provide menu items in the main
> navigation so the user can jump to those functionalities.
>
>
>
> My question: Is there a way that each plugin can compile its own templates
> with the template compiler? As I see things right now the template compiler
> needs to know all the templates (views?)
>
> What I want is that each plugin compiles its own templates into the C++
> views code and then provides that to the main application via the plugin
> interface.
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, I was unable to figure out whether this can be achieved –
> and if so how.
>
> Is there a technical limitation that prevents me from achieving this?
>
>
>
> I saw the documentation of “Dynamic Loading of Views” but as far as I
> understand that does not really cover my use case as it seems like all the
> templates/views need to be known when running the compiler.
>
>
>
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>
> Best regards,
>
> ~ Joel Bodenmann
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