I've pushed an example based on angularJS here: https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/application-angular-todo Thanks -Vincent On Jul 31, 2013, at 4:26 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: > FTR here's a first version: > https://gist.github.com/vmassol/6122447

+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

Hi, FYI just done a commit at https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/dbd746233254 where I've rewritten the webjars integration using a new Action module. I've also added an API to create the URL. Here's a usage example: require(["$services.webjars.url('angularjs/1.2.11/angular.js')"], function() { ... See also http://markmail.org/message/2ivabpgx3jxyqurj Thanks -Vincent On 1 Aug 2013 at 09:01:10, Vincent Massol (vincent@massol.net(mailto:vincent@massol.net)) wrote: _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

Hi guys, I’m going to merge this on master and I can revert if there’s a big issue (I don’t think that’ll be the case though). And I’ll continue improving it and replying to any comment that may arise. Thanks -Vincent On 7 Feb 2014 at 16:42:59, Thomas Mortagne (thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com(mailto:thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com)) wrote: > There is things to modify to make it really clean but since you know > about them I'm OK to start from this provided it's not a final state. > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:57 PM, vincent(a)massol.net wrote: > > Hi, > > > > FYI just done a commit at https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/dbd746233254 where I've rewritten the webjars integration using a new Action module. > > > > I've also added an API to create the URL. Here's a usage example: > > > > require(["$services.webjars.url('angularjs/1.2.11/angular.js')"], function() { > > ... > > > > See also http://markmail.org/message/2ivabpgx3jxyqurj > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > > > On 1 Aug 2013 at 09:01:10, Vincent Massol (vincent@massol.net(mailto:vincent@massol.net)) wrote: > > > >> > >> On Aug 1, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote: > >> > >> > +1 but we need an API to create the webjar URLs. > >> > >> 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