Hi Gavin,
sorry for the late reply.
Thanks to your solution, I see the file web-client-config-actions-custom.xml loaded now !! Great ! But (yes sorry there is a "but") my action is still not found. It used to work when I was patching the alfresco file.
What I understand is the following: my bean is overriden by the alfresco one (webClientConfigSource). If I rename my bean module-webClientConfigSource, I have the following trace in the log:
which shows that the files about actions and dialogs are found. Note the 2 times web-client-config-custom.xml loaded from the same jar which tends to indicates 2 instanciations…
My problem is now: how to use the new bean ? I've checked where the webClientConfigSource bean is used. It is used by bean webClientConfigService. So I would need to create this bean in my xml file. I've tried but it is the same which is in fact very logical. Alfresco beans are instanciated at last. I thought to force instanciation using a depends-on attribute and then create my own webClientConfigService. But it is becoming very tricky and not sure it is very very good for maintenance (anyway does not work…tried it just to be sure
)
So, I don't really see a solution for splitting web-client-config-custom.xml into multiple files. Adding the actions tag in web-client-config-custom.xml makes the thing of course but this is not a "clean" solution in my mind (I would prefer one file per topic as alfresco team does).
Am I missing something ?
sorry for the late reply.
Thanks to your solution, I see the file web-client-config-actions-custom.xml loaded now !! Great ! But (yes sorry there is a "but") my action is still not found. It used to work when I was patching the alfresco file.
What I understand is the following: my bean is overriden by the alfresco one (webClientConfigSource). If I rename my bean module-webClientConfigSource, I have the following trace in the log:
10:19:19,915 INFO [config.source.UrlConfigSource] Found META-INF/web-client-config-custom.xml in file:/home/lenzinge/apache-tomcat-5.5.23/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib/alfrescoConfig.jar
10:19:19,935 INFO [config.source.UrlConfigSource] Found META-INF/web-client-config-custom.xml in file:/home/lenzinge/apache-tomcat-5.5.23/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib/voyages.jar
10:19:19,953 INFO [config.source.UrlConfigSource] Found META-INF/web-client-config-actions-custom.xml in file:/home/lenzinge/apache-tomcat-5.5.23/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib/voyages.jar
10:19:19,969 INFO [config.source.UrlConfigSource] Found META-INF/web-client-config-dialog-custom.xml in file:/home/lenzinge/apache-tomcat-5.5.23/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib/voyages.jar
10:19:19,991 INFO [config.source.UrlConfigSource] Found META-INF/web-client-config-custom.xml in file:/home/lenzinge/apache-tomcat-5.5.23/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib/alfrescoConfig.jar
10:19:20,000 INFO [config.source.UrlConfigSource] Found META-INF/web-client-config-custom.xml in file:/home/lenzinge/apache-tomcat-5.5.23/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib/voyages.jar
which shows that the files about actions and dialogs are found. Note the 2 times web-client-config-custom.xml loaded from the same jar which tends to indicates 2 instanciations…
My problem is now: how to use the new bean ? I've checked where the webClientConfigSource bean is used. It is used by bean webClientConfigService. So I would need to create this bean in my xml file. I've tried but it is the same which is in fact very logical. Alfresco beans are instanciated at last. I thought to force instanciation using a depends-on attribute and then create my own webClientConfigService. But it is becoming very tricky and not sure it is very very good for maintenance (anyway does not work…tried it just to be sure
)So, I don't really see a solution for splitting web-client-config-custom.xml into multiple files. Adding the actions tag in web-client-config-custom.xml makes the thing of course but this is not a "clean" solution in my mind (I would prefer one file per topic as alfresco team does).
Am I missing something ?
OK, I think I've got to the bottom of the problem, it's an ordering issue.
The module-context.xml file is getting loaded before the web-client-application-context.xml file (this can be seen in web.xml) so basically our "webClientConfigSource" bean definition is getting loaded AFTER the AMP definition and thus overriding it, hence you are not seeing it get loaded!
There are a couple of options, you can obviously put all your config in the one web-client-config-custom.xml or you can use an AMP mechanism I had forgotten about
ops:
There is a way to define a list of your own web client config files as part of the AMP definition. If you look at the module-context.xml file for the blog integration module ( found in root/modules/blog-integration/config/alfresco/module/org.alfresco.module.blogintegration) you' ll find the following section:
You can place your config in this block, this will then append these files to the standard set of web client config files when the AMP gets loaded. The bean name does not matter so your config could look like the following:
Try this and let us know how it goes.
The module-context.xml file is getting loaded before the web-client-application-context.xml file (this can be seen in web.xml) so basically our "webClientConfigSource" bean definition is getting loaded AFTER the AMP definition and thus overriding it, hence you are not seeing it get loaded!
There are a couple of options, you can obviously put all your config in the one web-client-config-custom.xml or you can use an AMP mechanism I had forgotten about
ops: There is a way to define a list of your own web client config files as part of the AMP definition. If you look at the module-context.xml file for the blog integration module ( found in root/modules/blog-integration/config/alfresco/module/org.alfresco.module.blogintegration) you' ll find the following section:
<bean id="org_alfresco_module_blogIntegration_ConfigBootstrap" class="org.alfresco.web.config.WebClientConfigBootstrap" init-method="init">
<property name="configs">
<list>
<value>classpath:alfresco/module/org.alfresco.module.blogIntegration/ui/web-client-custom.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>You can place your config in this block, this will then append these files to the standard set of web client config files when the AMP gets loaded. The bean name does not matter so your config could look like the following:
<bean id="Your_Module_ConfigBootstrap" class="org.alfresco.web.config.WebClientConfigBootstrap" init-method="init">
<property name="configs">
<list>
<value>jar:*!/META-INF/web-client-config-custom.xml</value>
<value>jar:*!/META-INF/web-client-config-actions-custom.xml</value>
<value>jar:*!/META-INF/web-client-config-dialogs-custom.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>Try this and let us know how it goes.
