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

On Aug 1, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote: Yes, I had thought of this too. It would be nice to not have to add the "/xwiki/webjar" prefix but more importantly it'll work even if you change the servlet context. Thanks -Vincent > > Thanks, > Marius > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Vincent Massol 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/ will be made available by the servlet container as static resources (accessible as ). >> >> 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: >> >> >> org.webjars >> angularjs >> 1.1.5-1 >> runtime >> >> >> Then in a JSX object: >> >> require(["/xwiki/webjar/angularjs/1.1.5/angular.js"], function() { >> ... >> }); >> >> WDYT? >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent