Re: [Exist-development] betterform integration

[James F. <jam...@ex...>]

On 29 July 2010 11:12, Joern Turner <joe...@go...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after we have added betterform to the trunk there are some questions
> left to finish the first step:
>
> 1. we need to add ourselves to the start.config file. As we started as
> a intaller in an existing installation we have created our own copy of
> this file in the root of exist. I assume this is not the right way to
> do it now that betterform has become a part of the tree. I further
> assume that it's more appropriate to add our entries to
> src/org/exist/start/start.config? If yes, which condition would be
> appropriate - shall we use 'always'?

u don't need to add here if any jars are being placed under user,
which is what I am assuming

> 2. we need some guidance of how to integrate with the exist build
> system. Our extension files do not need compilation as we added the
> binaries to the extension but we need to:
> - modify the web.xml when betterform is supposed to be activated
> - add ourselves to the start.config (as mentioned above)
> - deploy our resources to the webapp/resources dir in exist
> - copy a xquery error page to the webapp/xquery dir

under build/scripts/build-impl.xml

add a new target

    <target name="extension-betterforms" depends="jar">
        <ant antfile="your build file.xml"
dir="extensions/betterforms" inheritall="false"/>
    </target>

and add in depends attribute in all target

you will also need to add in clean target the appropriate clean target
of betterforms (using antfile)


> 3. We have an issue with our demo application. This assumes that the
> admin password is defaulted to 'betterform' which is hardly
> appropriate any more. This there a way to determine this password from
> within an xquery or how can we otherwise manage to 'patch' our demo
> app files to have the right password. Of course we will remove this
> hardcoded value when the app moves on but for the time being it's
> necessary to make the demo run. Any guidance with this issue would be
> great.

for trunk and testing purposes can you remove password for now ?

I don't have time to review just at this moment to suggest other ways
to do this.

> 4. What about docs? Once we have figured out how to (de)activate
> betterform i assume we need some docs about that. Is there someone
> having the hat on for documentation? Of course it's up to us to
> provide the docs but it should be linked from somewhere in the exist
> site (developer guide?). Do you have particular wishes about which
> docs you'd like to see?

create a new directory under webapp/xforms e.g. webapp/xforms/betterforms

and follow how other people have created docs

I would like to see a top level xforms page with link to any and all
xforms extensions.

hth, James Fuller