[jbossseam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBSEAM-715) Allow multiple pages.xml files

[Chris Rudd (JIRA)]

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Chris Rudd commented on JBSEAM-715:
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I also have a need for multiple pages.xml. These are done as a per-directory pages.xml. 

Theoretically this is simple to implement, subclass the Pages component, override the initialization method so that it find all your pages.xml files, and calls parse for each one.

In practice its not that easy as most of the methods in the Pages component are private. Because of this the only solution is to lift the entire class, and then add your additional logic to the initialization method.

What would be helpful is if the parse routine was made protected or even better expose it as a public so that one could write a helper component that used the Pages component to register any additional pages.xml that were needed.

> Allow multiple pages.xml files
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBSEAM-715
>                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-715
>             Project: JBoss Seam
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: JSF
>    Affects Versions: 1.1.1.GA
>            Reporter: Stephan Bublava
>         Assigned To: Gavin King
>
> Currently it's possible to use one global pages.xml file or one file per page. I believe that both options are not well-suited for large applications.
> Consider an application like:
> /catalog/foo.xhtml
>         /bar.xhtml
>         /...
> /basket/foo.xhtml
>        /bar.xhtml
>        /...
> /admin/foo.xhtml
>       /bar.xhtml
>       /...
> In this case using a global file would be too convoluted, but at the same time one file per page is too fine grained.
> It would be great to allow one file per directory ("module"), either using a similar naming convention to page.xml or by adding an "import" tag to pages.xml.

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