eXo Forum Router mechanism

Abstract

• Currently, we are handling with complexity condition(See more detail in https://github.com/exodev/ks/blob/master/eXoApplication/forum/webapp/src/main/java/org/exoplatform/forum/webui/UIForumPortlet.java#calculateRenderComponent method), so totally difficult to maintainance if you have any change with forum's URI.

No	URI path	Comment
1	{selectNode}/ForumService	Accesses to Forum home page
2	{selectNode}/SearchForum	Render for Advanced Search UI form
3	{selectNode}/Tag	Handles for rendering list topics in the Tag
4	{selectNode}/topic/topic{random id}	Handles for rendering to show with topicID
5	{selectNode}/topic/topic{random id}/true	Handles for rendering to reply this topic
6	{selectNode}/topic/topic{random id}/false	Handles for rendering to qoute this topic
7	{selectNode}/topic/topic{random id}/post{ramdom id}	Handles for rendering to show postID which belong to given topicID
8	{selectNode}/topic/topic{ramdom id}/{number}	Handles for rendering to go to page of topicID
9	{selectNode}/forum/forum{random id}	Handles for rendering forum container
10	{selectNode}/forum/forum{random id}/{number}	Handles for rendering forum container and goto page number
11	{selectNode}/category/forumCategory{random id}	Handles for rendering category UI Form

• This component which uses to improve the way to parse URI's path in eXo Forum, it also made more easier to handle and manage forum's URI and then map to forum's handler.

Default build

Use this command to build project:

mvn clean install

By default, it will run only unit tests.

How to use this library

Sample code:

• Router configuration

   //{selectedNode}/ForumService
   ExoRouter.prependRoute("/{pageID}/ForumService", "forum.home");
   //{selectedNode}/SearchForum
   ExoRouter.addRoute("/{pageID}/SearchForum", "forum.search");
   //{selectedNode}Tag
   ExoRouter.addRoute("/{pageID}/Tag", "forum.tag");
   //{selectedNode}/topic/{topicId}
   ExoRouter.addRoute("/{pageID}/topic/{topicID}", "forum.topic.show");
   //{selectedNode}/topic/topic{topicId}/true
   ExoRouter.addRoute("/{pageID}/topic/{topicID}/reply", "forum.topic.reply");
   //{selectedNode}/topic/{topicId}/false
   ExoRouter.addRoute("/{pageID}/topic/{topicID}/quote", "forum.topic.quote");
   //{selectedNode}/topic/{topicID}/{postID}
   ExoRouter.addRoute("/{pageID}/topic/{topicID}/post/{postID}", "forum.topic.post.show");
   //{selectedNode}/topic/topic{topicID}/
   ExoRouter.addRoute("/{pageID}/topic/{topicID}/page/{pageNo}", "forum.topic.page");
   //{selectedNode}/forum/forum{forumID}
   ExoRouter.addRoute("/{pageID}/forum/{forumID}", "forum.show");
   //{selectNode}/forum/{forumID}/{number}
   ExoRouter.addRoute("/{pageID}/forum/{forumID}/page/{pageNo}", "forum.show.page");
  

• Gets Route from path like that:

   forum's path= "/12345/ForumService");"
   Route route = ExoRouter.route("/12345/ForumService");
   route.action is "forum.home"
   pageID is "12345"
  

  Base on these got data, it's easier to map with forum's handler.