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Subject: RE: [wsrp-interfaces] Applet resources through WSRP
| "Yossi Tamari"
<yossi@giloventures.com>
03/28/05 07:32 AM |
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| "Spector, Artem" <artem.spector@sap.com>
03/23/05 11:31 AM |
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| Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@bea.com>
03/23/05 10:17 AM |
|
I agree with that. I'm referring to your comment "the Producer must
also
use the templates on the relevant urls within the resource". Such
a
requirement, if placed, would assume that the Producer has control over
resource serving, and that it has the templates handy. Both of these may
not be true in most cases.
Subbu
Rich Thompson wrote:
>
> Section 10.2.1.1.3.2 of WSRP v1 lays the burden on the Consumer to
parse
> and rewrite urls for resources that set wsrp-requiresRewrite to true.
> Discussion of this requirement within the TC limited the burden to
> string parsing with a replacement of matching substrings. As such,
all
> textual types, including CSS, should be parsed. It is likely best
if the
> Consumer is agnostic to the resource's mimetype other than a
> determination of what, if any, of the rewritten url needs to be escaped
> in order for it to be valid within the containing document.
>
> Rich
>
>
> *Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@bea.com>*
>
> 03/23/05 09:58 AM
>
>
> To
> wsrp-interfaces@lists.oasis-open.org
> cc
>
> Subject
> Re:
[wsrp-interfaces] Applet resources through WSRP
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Rich Thompson wrote:
> >
> > It sounds like you are mixing two issues here:
> >
> > 1. You have validated that applet use has
the same issues as any
> > other url, but not a large set of
new issues. As a special note;
> > resource urls require full name preservation,
whether it be a .gif
> > or a .jar.
> > 2. When Producers use templates for url production
and referenced
> > resources also contain urls, the Producer
must also use the
>
> Can you confirm if the spec requires Producers to rewrite resources
it
> is serving over HTTP? AFAIR, this is only a requirement on Consumers
> when the MIME type of the resource is text/xml-like. I think the
> requirement on Producers has implications that we've not discussed
in
> detail.
>
> > templates on the relevant urls within
the resource. This will
> > become easier with the new getResource
operation (important pieces
> > of data are passed on the invocation),
but can be also done by
> > providing a resolver and passing any
required info on the url (or
> > in cookies, though I would prefer
to not explicitly name that
> > option). Note: this includes namespace
resolving as well as url
> > rewriting.
> >
> >
> > Rereading your post, is there also an issue with not all
Consumers
> > rewriting urls within resources (as per the specs requirements)?
> >
> > I think a couple of additions to the FAQ and Primer from
this
> > information might be in order.
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >
> > *"Spector, Artem" <artem.spector@sap.com>*
> >
> > 03/23/05 05:03 AM
> >
> >
> > To
> >
<wsrp-interfaces@lists.oasis-open.org>
> > cc
> >
> > Subject
> >
RE: [wsrp-interfaces] Applet resources through WSRP
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yes, we’ve found a solution (we work together with Avi)
and I’d like to
> > share it with you.
> >
> > Actually there are two challenges when composing consumer-side
URLs for
> > producer-side resources:
> > 1. In some cases the resource
name must be preserved in the
> > consumer-side URL (like .jar for applets)
> > 2. Nested resources – if a
css contains URLs, they must be
> > rewritten as well.
> >
> > The solution includes the following aspects:
> > 1. The Consumer modifies the
URLs so that they will end up with
> > the resource names.
> > 2. The Portlets use a standard
API to output resource URLs. In
> > WSRP scenario these calls are intercepted by the Producer,
which does
> > the necessary conversions (for example, URL writing using
templates).
> > 3. If the URL references a resource
containing other URLs (like
> > css or js), the producer replaces the resource URL with
a URL pointing
> > to a special producer-side servlet. This servlet acts as
a filter when
> > downloading the resource, and rewrites all the URLs it
contains.
> >
> > For illustration imagine a Portlet called *ExamplePortlet*
which was
> > deployed with image resource */images/r1.gif*. Its consumer-side
URL
> > will look like this:
> >
> _http://consumer.com/portal/consumer/resources/r1.gif?producerUrl=http://producer.com/portlets/ExamplePortlet/images/r1.gif_
>
> >
> >
> > If the Portlet has a style sheet resource */css/r2.css*,
its URL will
> > look like this:
> >
> _http://consumer.com/portal/consumer/resources/r2.css?producerUrl=http://producer.com/producer/resources/r2.css?resourceUrl=http://producer.com/portlets/ExamplePortlet/css/r2.css_
>
> >
> >
> > Now if r2.css contains a reference to r1.gif, then the
producer-side
> > servlet (producer/resources) will invoke the Producer URL
writing logic
> > for this URL. So eventually the image URL returned to the
client within
> > the style sheet will exactly as in the first example.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Artem
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > *From:* Rich Thompson [mailto:richt2@us.ibm.com] *
> > Sent:* Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:58 PM*
> > To:* wsrp-interfaces@lists.oasis-open.org*
> > Subject:* Re: [wsrp-interfaces] Applet resources through
WSRP
> >
> >
> > I have been asked this question now by several people ...
has anyone
> > tried referencing an applet in markup from a WSRP portlet?
If so, any
> > guidelines that should be shared with portlet developers?
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > *Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@bea.com>*
> >
> > 01/26/05 08:07 AM
> >
> >
> > To
> >
wsrp-interfaces@lists.oasis-open.org
> > cc
> >
> > Subject
> >
Re: [wsrp-interfaces] Apptel resources through WSRP
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Is the Producer returning the Content-Type header? I've
not tried applet
> > downloading, but if Content-Type does not work, I would
try the
> > Content-Disposition header, e.g. with a "inline; filename=foo.jar"
> > value. In any case, the Consumer has to proxy these headers
to the
> browser.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Subbu
> >
> > Klein, Avi wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I wonder if someone has dealt with fetching
of applet as resource.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Whenever rewriting the URL of the applet, the
browser fails to
> fetch it
> > > since it expects the URL to end with *.jar and
not with the
> consumer URL
> > > (result of the rewriting).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Avi.
> > >
> >
>
>
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