[Webware-devel] [ webware-Bugs-636699 ] includeURL and paths

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Bugs item #636699, was opened at 2002-11-11 09:39
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Category: WebKit
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: includeURL and paths

Initial Comment:
I've found the following bug (or maybe its a feature) 
using includeURL:

Suppose we have a directory structure as follows:

/bla/mycontext
                     /pageTemplates
                     /application1
                     /application2

and inside pageTemplates we have a BasePage 
subclassed from Page. This is the page from which 
pages are subclassed in application1 and application2

at 'root level' in mycontext we have components that 
are used from BasePage like footer.psp, header.html, 
as well as a stylesheet file. All of this components are 
included using includeURL at the proper methods. 
Everything works fine when using a page (subclassed 
from BasePage) at mycontext level.

the problem here is that the call 
includeURL('header.html')
when we are in a page from the directory application1 
will actually look for 'header.html' inside application1, 
and if we use includeURL('/header.html') will not have 
the disired effect of including the file from mycontext.

If its a feature, we do not know how to get that effect, 
since we do not want to duplicate our files in every 
directory of application#

We have temporarly fixed the problem with the  
following change to includeURL inside Application.py:
def includeURL(self, trans, URL):
        req = trans.request()

        #Save the things we're gonna change.
        currentPath=req.urlPath()
        currentServlet=trans._servlet

        urlPath = req.urlPath()
        # ***************************** IMPORTANT 
********************************
        # the following condition was changed to 'accept' 
an absolute path
        # defined within the URL, that is: '/servlet' will 
NOT be looked
        # in the relative parent directory
        #
        # LCJ --- Oct 17th 2002
        #
        # original code: get rid of the first if condition and 
leave the else code
        # unconditioned

        if (URL.startswith('/')):
            urlPath = URL
        else:
            if urlPath=='':
                urlPath = '/' + URL
            elif urlPath[-1]=='/':
                urlPath = urlPath + URL
            else:
                lastSlash = string.rfind(urlPath, '/')
                urlPath = urlPath[:lastSlash+1] + URL
        # 
*******************************************************
*****************
        
        req.setURLPath(urlPath)
        req.addParent(currentServlet)

        #Get the new servlet
        self.createServletInTransaction(trans)

        #call the servlet, but not session, it's already 
alive
        trans.servlet().awake(trans)
        trans.servlet().respond(trans)
        trans.servlet().sleep(trans)

        self.returnInstance(trans,trans.request
().serverSidePath())

        #replace things like they were
        #trans.request()._serverSidePath=currentPath
        req.setURLPath(currentPath)
        req.popParent()
        trans._servlet=currentServlet

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