cocoon 2.2 block handling all file reading

I've seen many cocoon apps where they use properties in the sitemap to for instance dynamically construct the "src" attribute of a generator or reader. I also did not want to pollute my sitemap with multilevel selectors to get the job done. Well, there are more elegant ways to accomplish this. I used a combination of

• the cocoon spring configurator
• sitemap
• flowscript
• springbean

Screenshots below should make clear how i setup a (shared) block for ally upcoming publications to handle file reading.

Configure a bean with all knowledge about the repository containing images, xml, ...

Bean configuration:
















Java Bean snippet:

















Sitemap snippet:
























Flowscript snippet: (which calls my javabean)



















So what basically happens is that the sitemap delegates the construction of the src attribute to a flowscript function. This flowscript call's my javabean based on the parameters it receives from the sitemap. Then another pipeline is invoked which
- generates the xml file in case of calling the xml pipeline
OR
- reads the file from disk

Cheers,
Robby Pelssers