Hi Christian, I tried the approach of serving static web resources from RestXQ. First I encountered a problem related to my js files being served to the browser as b64 encoded and the browser isn't able to interpret the script. So I modified the code in order to recognize text resources and apply file:read-text but then the < are escaped to < and again the browser complains with syntax errors. What am I missing here? I'm trying with the latest snapshot, btw. This is the code I'm using
declare %rest:path("/dasbox/ui/resources/{$resource=.+}") %rest:GET %output:method("html") function ui:resources($resource as xs:string){ let $path := file:base-dir() || 'resources/' || $resource let $mediatype := web:content-type($path) return ( web:response-header(map { 'media-type': $mediatype }), if (matches($mediatype, "^text/.+")) then file:read-text($path) else file:read-binary($path) ) };
Thanks for your support, Marco.
On 03/05/2016 02:59, Murray, Gregory wrote:
Hi Christian,
Thanks for the hints! I see that using webapp/static does work, but I prefer to keep all files related to an app together under one directory, so I'll use the second option you provided -- using RESTXQ.
Many thanks, Greg
From: Christian Grün [christian.gruen@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 3:20 AM To: Murray, Gregory Cc: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Web application static files
Hi Greg,
Thanks for your mail. If you are working with the ZIP distribution, you could compare your code with the RESTXQ examples in the restxq.xqm file.
I assume you get 404 because your static directory is a sub-directory of bookplates. Here are two things you can do:
- Move your static directory from "webapp/bookplates" to "webapp"
- Deliver static files via RESTXQ (see common.xqm and the REST path
"/dba/static/{$file=.+}").
Does this help? Christian
On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Murray, Gregory gregory.murray@ptsem.edu wrote:
Hello,
I'm new to BaseX, and I'm setting up a simple web application (on Mac/Unix, using the ZIP distribution of BaseX). I'm unable to bring in static files like CSS. Following the documentation and the "dba" web application that comes with BaseX, I have included the following in the HTML:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="static/app.css"/>
to point to a file that resides here:
~/basex/webapp/bookplates/static/app.css
I have a module sitting here:
~/basex/webapp/bookplates/controller.xqm
with a function with these annotations:
%rest:path("bookplates") %output:method("html")
When I point my browser to http://localhost:8984/bookplates/ the server successfully returns the HTML, but when the browser tries to load the CSS it requests http://localhost:8984/bookplates/static/app.css and the server responds with a 404 saying "No function found that matches the request" as if the server is looking for a RESTXQ function.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks, Greg