Restructured Blog Module

All blog handlers and storage classes are detached from the nodes module. All files of the blog module are in the modules/blog folder

examples/demo/modules/blog/handler/blog_handler.e

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+note
+	description: "Request handler related to /blogs."
+	author: "Dario B<>sch <daboesch@student.ethz.ch>"
+	date: "$Date: 2015-05-18 13:49:99 +0100 (lun., 18 mai 2015) $"
+	revision: "$966167$"
+
+class
+	BLOG_HANDLER
+
+inherit
+	CMS_BLOG_HANDLER
+
+	WSF_URI_HANDLER
+		rename
+			new_mapping as new_uri_mapping
+		end
+
+	WSF_RESOURCE_HANDLER_HELPER
+		redefine
+			do_get
+		end
+
+	REFACTORING_HELPER
+
+create
+	make
+
+feature -- execute
+
+	execute (req: WSF_REQUEST; res: WSF_RESPONSE)
+			-- Execute request handler
+		do
+			execute_methods (req, res)
+		end
+
+feature -- Settings
+	entries_per_page : INTEGER
+		-- The numbers of posts that are shown on one page. If there are more post a pagination is generated
+		do
+			-- For test reasons this is 2, so we don't have to create a lot of blog entries.
+			-- TODO: Set to bigger constant or load from global configuration file.
+			Result := 2
+		end
+
+feature -- HTTP Methods	
+	do_get (req: WSF_REQUEST; res: WSF_RESPONSE)
+			-- <Precursor>
+		local
+			l_page: CMS_RESPONSE
+			s: STRING
+			n: CMS_NODE
+			lnk: CMS_LOCAL_LINK
+			hdate: HTTP_DATE
+		do
+				-- At the moment the template is hardcoded, but we can
+				-- get them from the configuration file and load them into
+				-- the setup class.
+
+			create {GENERIC_VIEW_CMS_RESPONSE} l_page.make (req, res, api)
+			l_page.add_variable (node_api.nodes, "nodes")
+
+
+				-- NOTE: for development purposes we have the following hardcode output.
+			create s.make_from_string ("<h2>Blog</h2>")
+			if attached node_api.blogs_order_created_desc as lst then
+				-- Filter out blog entries from all nodes
+				--if n.content_type.is_equal ("blog") then
+					s.append ("<ul class=%"cms-blog-nodes%">%N")
+					across
+						lst as ic
+					loop
+						n := ic.item
+						lnk := node_api.node_link (n)
+						s.append ("<li class=%"cms_type_"+ n.content_type +"%">")
+
+						-- Post date (creation)
+						if attached n.creation_date as l_modified then
+							create hdate.make_from_date_time (l_modified)
+							s.append (hdate.yyyy_mmm_dd_string)
+							s.append (" ")
+						end
+
+						-- Author
+						if attached n.author as l_author then
+							s.append ("by ")
+							s.append (l_author.name)
+						end
+
+						-- Title with link
+						s.append (l_page.link (lnk.title, lnk.location, Void))
+
+						-- Summary
+						if attached n.summary as l_summary then
+							s.append ("<p class=%"blog_list_summary%">")
+							if attached api.format (n.format) as f then
+								s.append (f.formatted_output (l_summary))
+							else
+								s.append (l_page.formats.default_format.formatted_output (l_summary))
+							end
+							s.append ("<br />")
+							s.append (l_page.link ("See more...", lnk.location, Void))
+							s.append ("</p>")
+						end
+
+						s.append ("</li>%N")
+					end
+					s.append ("</ul>%N")
+				--end
+			end
+
+			l_page.set_main_content (s)
+			l_page.add_block (create {CMS_CONTENT_BLOCK}.make ("nodes_warning", Void, "/blogs/ is not yet fully implemented<br/>", Void), "highlighted")
+			l_page.execute
+		end
+
+
+end

examples/demo/modules/blog/handler/cms_blog_handler.e

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+note
+	description: "Summary description for {CMS_NODE_HANDLER}."
+	author: ""
+	date: "$Date: 2015-02-13 13:08:13 +0100 (ven., 13 févr. 2015) $"
+	revision: "$Revision: 96616 $"
+
+deferred class
+	CMS_BLOG_HANDLER
+
+inherit
+	CMS_MODULE_HANDLER [CMS_BLOG_API]
+		rename
+			module_api as node_api
+		end
+
+end