topic Merge files from web-extension in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/merge-files-from-web-extension/m-p/275826#M228956 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; I've just fell over a tricky architecture problem, and I'm not sure of the best way to solve it.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>How can I deal with two modules, both deploying a same file (let's say "toolbar.get.config.xml" for instance) in a web-extension context ?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>By 'module', I mean something large : whether it's </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; &gt; an AMP : the last deployed module will win, other duplicated files from web-extension context will be overriden</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; &gt; a </SPAN><A href="http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/kevinr/2010/01/28/alfresco-share-33-extensions-and-springsurf/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">JAR</A><SPAN> : I don't know which strategy is chosen, but only one module will work.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Just to make myself clear, here's an example :</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>My first module would customize 'toolbar.get.config.xml' this way :</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;toolbar&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;createContent&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;content mimetype="text/plain" icon="plain-text" label="menu.create-content.text" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;content mimetype="text/html" icon="html" label="menu.create-content.html" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;content mimetype="text/xml" icon="xml" label="menu.create-content.xml" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;content mimetype="xml/custom1" icon="xml" label="menu.create-content.custom1" formid="custom1-common-form"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/createContent&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>And my second module would customize it like this :</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;toolbar&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;createContent&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;content mimetype="text/plain" icon="plain-text" label="menu.create-content.text" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;content mimetype="text/html" icon="html" label="menu.create-content.html" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;content mimetype="text/xml" icon="xml" label="menu.create-content.xml" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;content mimetype="xml/custom2" icon="xml" label="menu.create-content.custom2" formid="custom2-common-form"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/createContent&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>Those two modules are incompatibles, just because of their integration <img id="smileysad" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysad" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-sad.png" alt="Smiley Sad" title="Smiley Sad" /> !</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>On one hand, I understand this problem is 'difficult' : how could the system determine the way to merge those two files ?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>But on the other, it means one module can walk over another, and make it unusable, unless I make those dependent each-other :</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;toolbar&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;createContent&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;content mimetype="text/plain" icon="plain-text" label="menu.create-content.text" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;content mimetype="text/html" icon="html" label="menu.create-content.html" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;content mimetype="text/xml" icon="xml" label="menu.create-content.xml" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;content mimetype="xml/custom1" icon="xml" label="menu.create-content.custom1" formid="custom1-common-form"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;content mimetype="xml/custom2" icon="xml" label="menu.create-content.custom2" formid="custom2-common-form"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/createContent&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>(thus, those two modules will have to be installed together to work)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So, my question is : is there a way I could define 'partially' those files ?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Maybe something like the following in a boostrap… ?</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;web-extension&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;site-webscript&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;org&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;alfresco&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;components&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;documentlibrary&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;toolbar.get.config.xml&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;addChildTo xpath="/toolbar/createContent"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;content mimetype="xml/custom1" icon="xml" label="menu.create-content.custom1" formid="custom1-common-form"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/addChildTo&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;removeNode xpath="/toolbar/createContent/content[@mimetype="text/html"]"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;modifyNode&gt;… etc.<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/toolbar.get.config.xml&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/documentlibrary&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/components&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/alfresco&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/org&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/site-webscript&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:10:28 GMT gric 2011-01-05T14:10:28Z Merge files from web-extension https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/merge-files-from-web-extension/m-p/275826#M228956 Hi,&nbsp; I've just fell over a tricky architecture problem, and I'm not sure of the best way to solve it.How can I deal with two modules, both deploying a same file (let's say "toolbar.get.config.xml" for instance) in a web-extension context ?By 'module', I mean something large : whether it's &nbsp; &gt; an Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:10:28 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/merge-files-from-web-extension/m-p/275826#M228956 gric 2011-01-05T14:10:28Z Re: Merge files from web-extension https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/merge-files-from-web-extension/m-p/275827#M228957 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Generally we recommend that modification that modify existing files should be placed in the web-extensions folder directly, i.e. not in an AMP or JAR. That way you've only got exactly ONE override.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>New functionality can be added via AMP or JAR. Yes, you can override using those mechanisms, but you run into the problem you've just encountered. Whilst your bootstrap idea is a clever one, it would only work for config files, not implementation.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Mike</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:59:32 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/merge-files-from-web-extension/m-p/275827#M228957 mikeh 2011-01-05T15:59:32Z