The SiteMesh module integrates the SiteMesh 3 decoration and Web application integration framework with Magnolia. If you intend to use SiteMesh only as the mechanism for
dynamic page caching you can skip this page after its installation and
continue with Advanced
Dynamic Page Caching.
SiteMesh intercepts requests to any static or dynamically generated HTML
page requested through the web-server, processes the content and then
merges it with one or more decorators to build the final result.
Installing with Maven
Bundled modules are automatically installed for you.
If the module is unbundled, add the following to your bundle including your project’s <dependencyManagement> section and your webapp’s <dependencies> section.
If the module is unbundled but the parent POM manages the version, add the following to your webapp’s <dependencies> section.
Should you need to specify the module version, do it using <version>.
Uninstalling
Remove the /server/filters/sitemesh node.
Remove the /server/rendering/engine/listeners/sitemesh node.
Remove the /modules/sitemesh node and its subnodes.
Shut down Magnolia, remove the SiteMesh module JAR
(magnolia-module-sitemesh.jar) from WEB-INF/lib and start up
Magnolia again.
Removing the mgnl:injecturi tag
If you want to remove the mgnl:injecturi tag, then:
Remove the /server/rendering/engine/listeners/personalizedComponent.
Set /modules/cache/config/contentCaching/defaultPageCache/cachePolicy@includePersonalizedDescendants to true.
Filter
SiteMesh filter processes by default only text/html but can be
configured to process any text resources such as css or javascript:
Decorators
The decorator contains the common layout and style that should be
applied to the pages in the web application.
If you have samples and demo/project installed, you can find SiteMesh
sample under /demo-features/modules/sitemesh-sample.html and its
decorator under /demo-features/modules/sitemesh-sample/decorator.html.
You can configure more than one decorator per path (and of course use
regular expression for path). You can find the templates under
templates:/sitemesh-sample.
Processes the text content tag by tag. You can configure sets of rules
under tagRuleBundles. You can use the bundles provided by
SiteMesh 3.0.0. Just use info.magnolia.sitemesh.content.TagRuleBundleWrapper
as class, create node wrapped and set the bundle class as the property
class:
Tag rule bundles
Because the bundles provided by SiteMesh 3 are fixed sets of rules,
Magnolia offers you also configurable
info.magnolia.sitemesh.content.MagnoliaTagRuleBundle. You can
dynamically add info.magnolia.sitemesh.content.MagnoliaRules to this
bundle:
Magnolia 5.4.6+ / Sitemesh 1.0.3+. You can configure the
baseURL in the InjectUriRule node.
Set
/server/filters/sitemesh/decoratedFilter/contentProcessor/tagRuleBundles/magnolia/rules/InjectUriRule/tag/baseUrl
to http://localhost:8080${contextPath}, for example.
Request: https://demo.magnolia-cms.com/.
Fragment request:
https://localhost:8080/magnoliaPublic~mgnlArea=main~.
Site-specific configurations are not taken into
account.
If baseURL is not set, the base URL of the current request is used:
Request: https://demo.magnolia-cms.com/.
Fragment request:
https://demopublic.magnolia-cms.com/~mgnlArea=main~.
Rules & Tags
Every info.magnolia.sitemesh.content.MagnoliaRule holds tag.
info.magnolia.sitemesh.content.AbstractTag processes a html tag. You
can implement for example a tag which replaces all occurrences of <b>
with <s>. Set includeInContent=true on rule if you don’t want to
replace the original tag but only append new content after it. Add
content node named tagTypes to a tag to tell which
tag types you want to process. All types (open, close, …) will be processed
if no tagTypes node will be added.
Tag for injection of content retrieved by URI (that means a URI which
points to the same webapp) specified as argument target of this tag.
The current original request is used to create URL. Other arguments are
set as request headers such as X-Magnolia-Fragment header which allows
you to set time to live of this dynamic fragment.