[aida] Custom request handling howto?

[Janko Mivšek]

Hi Nicholas,

Nicholas Moore wrote:
> I want to make documents (.pdf, .doc or .html) in a directory available 
> for download. I can populate the page easily enough with the document 
> links, but when I try to download the link, I get a 404 not found. In 
> this case is it best to modify Swazoo or Aida, perhaps by modifying 
> ooRefFromURL: as you suggest below? If so how, by using FileProxy?

I think you can do that simply by providing a text url for a link on 
your page and setup a right AIDASite>>homeDirectory.

Something like:

	e addLinkTo: '/files/document.pdf' text: 'document.pdf'.

URLResolver will then automatically search for that file in 
<homeDirectory>/files and if found, make aFileProxy and register it in 
URLResolver.

Best regards
JAnko


> Janko Mivšek wrote:
>>
>>
>> I think the Url resolution can be extended in two ways:
>>
>> - to extend Swazoo way of resolution also to the sub-resources of
>>    AIDASite, as it is shown above,
>> - to extend Aida way of resolution. URLResolver resolve urls in three
>>    levels already and this can be extended:
>>    1. if Url is registered for some object, request is passed to
>>       that object. This is normally a domain object which passes
>>       it to its App (see Object>>printWebPageFor: session)
>>    2. if not 1 then a static file is tried to be found
>>    3. if not 2 then a so called method resource is searched for
>>
>> Look URLResolver>>ooRefFromURL: for above resolution. In any case the 
>> Url will be resolved to a pointer to some object, being domain object, 
>> FileProxy or MethodResource, and request will be passed to it. This 
>> object will also be registered in main URLResolver table at that time, 
>> so that next time the resolution will be direct and fast.
>>
>> To conclude, you can extend resolution in Aida way, which always resolve 
>>   to some object or in Swazoo way, which resolve to some Resource.
>>
>> I hope I hit your question more or less with that answer...
>>
>> Best regards
>> Janko
>>
>>
>>   
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