[Yanel-development] Root realm at bottom of file

[Michael Wechner]

Josias Thoeny wrote:

>Hi Michi,
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>>Hi
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>>I noticed that the root realm within conf/realms.xml has been moved to
>>the bottom of the "file".
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>>Is that a requirement?
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>First of all, thanks for applying the patch.
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thank you for creating these patches

>The root realm has been moved to the bottom of the file because MapImpl
>now finds the realm for a given url as follows:
>It scans the list of all realms in the config file from top to bottom and
>takes the first one whose mount-point matches the url. This means that
>arbitrary mount-points should now be possible. But it also means that the
>order is important if more than one mount-point matches a url.
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>For example:
>realmA: mount-point=/foo/bar/
>realmB: mount-point=/somethingelse
>realmC: mount-point=/foo
>realmD: mount-point=/   (root realm)
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>A request for the url "/foo/bar/index.html" matches realmA, realmC, and
>realmD. Because of the given order, realmA will be used.
>The root realm will match any url and therefore has to be last one in the
>list.
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sounds good to me. So I guess the attribute root="true" has become 
obsolete, right?

>I tried to explain this with a comment in the realms config file.
>If people think it's confusing, we could change the algorithm to always
>use the realm with the longest mount-point (the "most specific one") among
>all realms with a matching mount-point.
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>WDYT?
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I think it's fine :-) and guess the next step would be to create a test 
realms with nested order.

Thanks

Michi

>Josias
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>>Cheers
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>>Michi
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