Medium Grained Pages.xml

04. Oct 2008, 23:33 America/New_York | Link John Gilbert

Currently it is possible to have a global pages.xml file or a .page.xml per page.

I would like to be able to define multiple meta-inf/pages.xml and have them all merged similar to the way meta-inf/components.xml works.

It looks like I could just modify Pages.initialize() to work similar to the way Initialization.initComponentsFromXmlDocuments() works something like this:

public void initialize() {
   // leave existing impl
   for (String resource: resources) {
      InputStream stream = ResourceLoader.instance().getResourceAsStream(resource);      
      parse(stream);
   }
   
   // add adding approach
   Enumeration<URL> resources = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResources("META-INF/pages.xml");
   while (resources.hasMoreElements()) {
      URL url = resources.nextElement();
      parse(url.openStream());
   }
}

Does anyone see any unintended side effects or problems with doing this?