[Yanel-dev] import site and introspection

[Josias Thöny]

Josias Thöny wrote:
> Michael Wechner wrote:
>> Andreas Wuest wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Josias
>>>
>>> On 6.3.2007 1:10 Uhr, Josias Thöny wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> While working on the import site feature I noticed a problem:
>>>> After a site has been crawled and the dump has been imported into 
>>>> yanel, the pages are not editable because the introspection files 
>>>> don't exist.
>>>> Is it really necessary to create an introspection file for each 
>>>> imported file? Or is there a better solution?
>>>
>>>
>>> Personally, I would all be for dynamically generated introspection 
>>> objects, based on some meta-data (e.g. isModifiable, etc., paired 
>>> with some sane fall-back values if a specific property is not present).
>>>
>> me too, but we need to discuss how it's best to accomplish this. For 
>> instance there should always be the check if an introspection exists 
>> in case to overwrite the generic case (this could be done throught the 
>> chain of responsibility).
> 
> What about this:
> The page /en/about.html contains a link to its introspection file.
> If this link is "/en/about.html?yanel.usecase=introspection", a
> dynamically generated introspection file will be returned.
> If the link is something like "/en/introspection-about.xml", it points
> to a static introspection file in the repository.

I opened a bug and added a patch for this:
http://bugzilla.wyona.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5226

Please review and comment...

Josias

> 
> Could there be any problem with static export because of the
> request-parameter?
> 
> The other option would be to use a naming convention for the
> introspection file, and if the introspection file does not exist, a 
> default one will be found by pattern matching.
> The drawback of this approach is that it does not allow to use different 
>  default introspection files for each resource type. I mean, with url 
> pattern matching it's not possible to say "all file-resources should use 
> introspection-file.xml and all xml-resources should use 
> introspection-xml.xml".
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> josias
> 
>>
>> I think it's best if we add a new item to the roadmap and specify it 
>> first ;-)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Michi
>>
>>
> 
> 
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