Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] WebJar integration in XWiki

+1 but we need an API to create the webjar URLs.

Thanks, Marius On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Vincent Massol &lt;vincent(a)massol.net&gt; wrote: > Hi devs, > > I'd like to make it easy in XWiki to use javascript frameworks required by extensions. > > I've found the webjars project (http://webjars.org) which packages javascript frameworks in JAR files available in Maven Central. > > They work out of the box if you drop them in WEB-INF/lib in a Servlet 3.0 container (like Jetty 7). It works because the 3.0 spec says that any files located in META-INF/resources/<path> will be made available by the servlet container as static resources (accessible as <path>). > > However the servlet 3.0 specs doesn't support adding those JAR dynamically outside of WEB-INF/lib so it doesn't work with our extension mechanism. > > Thus I'm proposing the following (which I have tested to work): > > * Add a new WebJarFilter filter to web.xml > * The URL to access, for ex, angular.js packaged in the http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/webjars/angularjs/1.1.5-1/angularjs-1.1.5… jar would be: /xwiki/webjar/angularjs/1.1.5/angular.js > > This allows for example to have a dep on: > > <dependency> > <groupId>org.webjars</groupId> > <artifactId>angularjs</artifactId> > <version>1.1.5-1</version> > <scope>runtime</scope> > </dependency> > > Then in a JSX object: > > require(["/xwiki/webjar/angularjs/1.1.5/angular.js"], function() { > … > }); > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent