Yes it works !!
While looking for a way to have some better URL in Webware, than the defaut http://host/Servlet?arg0=..&arg1=, Ian tell me to look at WebKit.URLParser. After a little time looking at the source i managed to do this without too much pain. As i can’t find example on the web, I put this here, if Ian is ok, i will perhaps post this on the wiki.
# put this in your context __init__.py file
class CustomParser(URLParser.URLParser):
"""
Class to do the dispatch of Request it should return a servlet instance
if we return nothing the default Webware behaviour is used
"""
def parse(self,trans,requestPath):
values=string.split(requestPath,'/')
if values[-2] == 'Article':
restPart = '/'
name = 'blog/Article.py'
req = trans.request()
req.setField('id',values[-1])
req._extraURLPath = restPart
req._serverSidePath = name
return URLParser.ServletFactoryManager.servletForFile(trans, name)
# we use the default url handling
return None
urlParser=CustomParser()
So now url like http://alias.larsen-b.com/Article/1 will map to the servlet Article.py and argument id=1 (http://alias.larsen-b.com/Article?id=1).
Of course this is a really simple example, but you can do things really more funny.
will some1 please give me a program that weill teach me to use python? I am new at this, my email is anticastleism@prweb.com thanks
Is this for Ian’s stand-alone WK only?
There’s no Webkit.URLParser in stock.
No, this works w/ the CVS version of webware. I forget to this in the post
Interestingly, it seems like this will map any URL ending in Article/X to blog/Article?id=X. So /really/long/URL/to/Article/10 will map to the same location as /Article/10. Which is, perhaps, what you want.
You can raise exceptions in the parsing too, so you could do something like (after you tests for ‘Articles’):
if len(values) != 3:
….# I think it should be 3, including the empty root segment, but maybe the magic number is 2
….raise HTTPRedirect(location=’/Article/%s’ % values[-1])
Then you’ll accept alternate URLs, but canonicalize them to a single form.
Well, I cant agree more.