Re: [ucn] adding an observer (and somehow failing so far)

Le mardi 22 août 2006 à 13:41 +0900, olivier Thereaux a écrit :
> Hello Jean-Gui, Damien, all,
> 
> On Aug 22, 2006, at 05:58 , Jean-Guilhem Rouel wrote:
> > I am not sure to understand what you want to add in the ant file.
> > Building Unicorn is completely independent from the tasks and
> > configuration files.
> 
> Yes, and no, if I only base myself on the documentation :)
> Unless I am mistaken (or the documentation is wrong), the UI is being  
> generated at the time the war file is being deployed. And since, for  
> now at least, the output of the auto-deployment is not very useful  
> nor easy to get to, the idea was that the ant build could be a good  
> time to run a few checks, before passing potentially broken files to  
> tomcat.
> 
> > Errors are reported in the servlet because xml-wellformedness of  
> > config
> > files and everything else is checked at run time, during the
> > initialization of the servlet (to initialize the servlet, there are at
> > least two ways: restarting tomcat or using the tomcat manager web
> > interface).
> 
> are the HTML and JS file also regenerated then?

Yes they are, otherwise it would be useless to reload the tasklist :)

> 
> > So, you can add a target in ant, to check that, but I don't think it
> > would be very helpful since one of the aims of Unicorn is to avoid
> > having to re-build it after each change in the tasks, observers or
> > templates. Improving messages in log files and splitting them (it  
> > might
> > already be the case, I don't remember) would be far more useful. You
> > could have for example one file for errors in the tasklist, one for
> > errors in the observers list, one for errors in contracts and one for
> > errors in templates. Another interesting one would log all the  
> > requests
> > coming from the end-user and their associated errors. And something  
> > very
> > important would be to describe all these log files in a README or
> > something like that :).
> 
> Absolutely, I agree with all this. I think this is something Damien  
> has been working on. To some extent, the logs are here and already  
> quite well separated, but not yet very usable, and not yet documented.
>

Received on Tuesday, 22 August 2006 15:35:36 UTC