[Yanel-dev] Inconsistencies re resource-types.xml

[Michael Wechner]

Josias Thöny wrote:

>On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 14:19 +0200, Michael Wechner wrote:
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>>Hi
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>>When trying to fix the binary snapshot generation of Yanel I have 
>>noticed that during the build the resource-types.xml is being patched, 
>>such that "resource.xml" is being added. There are three issues related 
>>to this
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>>1) One has to remember that this needs to be done ;-) when using it in 
>>different places
>>2) The file (and also the local) within conf dir are "inconsistent" with 
>>the  one within WEB-INF/classes
>>3) One cannot configure the resource.xml (OTOH  which might be not that bad)
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>>I am not sure if we should leave it like this or add "resource.xml" to 
>>the conf files and drop the patching.
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>>WDYT?
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>I agree it's not very nice.
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>If we add the "resource.xml" suffix within conf/resource-types.xml, the
>build process will have a problem, because it needs the path of the
>resource directory (e.g. to find the build.xml of the resource).
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>The other possibility is to not add "resource.xml" and just have the
>directory path in resource-types.xml. Then the ResourceTypeRegistry
>would look for a file called resource.xml in that directory.
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I think that makes sense

>Some time ago I was thinking how to allow multiple resource types within
>one directory (which might make sense for resource types which share the
>same dependencies and can be built with the same build.xml). 
>To see if it works, I removed the "resource.xml" suffix from
>resource-types.xml and modified ResourceTypeRegistry s.t. it loads all
>files named resource*.xml in the resource directory.
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I guess that would be a nice enhancement of the above

>Do you think this might be useful?
>I could provide a patch.
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that would be nice

Thanks

Michi

>Josias
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>>Cheers
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>>Michi
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