I would like to generate web.xml servlet definitions from glide.groovy :

web {
    servlets {
        templateTest1Servlet {
            servletClass = "grooplateServlet"
            initParams = ['verbose' : false, 'generated.by' : false ]
            urlPatterns = ['OK.gtpl']
        }
    }
}

this generates following web.xml servlet definition:

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>templateTest1Servlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class />
    <load-on-startup />
</servlet>

and no servlet mapping.

the app dir should be the only source of truth for the web app. Let the source sets compile into app/WEB-INF/classes

In the user app glide config, if we need to make a filter load before any other filter, currently there's no way to specify so.

Which means those urls matching that pattern will be exempted by the Filter and it will let them pass through. allow sounds too generic and feels as if allow takes precedence over block.

So that anyone can download and start using it.

Create a separate project that can be reused. It's lifecycle will not be dependent on glide. Directory Tree DSL and Synchronizer DSL can be part of that project.

as other modules depends on groovy's later version, altho we put an older groovy version, because of transitive deps, the latest (2.4.5) is packaged. provide a way to override? low priority though.

glide {
    versions {
        groovyVersion = '2.3.5'
...

Sometimes multiple app id's / versions are required for Staging/Prod. Some config may also change depending on environment.

conf  {
    environments {
        prod {
            x = 10
        }
        qa {
            x = 20
        }
    }
}

currently glide doesn't support any such thing out of the box.

the barebones glide app

Where ever supported. Don't break the build if browser could not be opened. This might not be required or REST API only apps. It should be enabled/disabled from extension.

It should be as easy as having __build.gradle file synced to the template and than imported to template's build.gradle file using apply from: '__build.gradle' (at the end of the script I think)

when i try glide --app hello-glide create

i got

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: glide/runner/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:643)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:277)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:73)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:212)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:323)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:268)
Could not find the main class: glide.runner.Main. Program will exit.

SkImageDecoder::Factory returned null

may be by adding explicit excludes on some of appengine's transitive deps

in the generated appengine-web.xml

If glide app provides a list value, values set by template app are lost. An example is listener. If app needs to have it's listener included in the list, currently one has to provide the listener added by glide as well otherwise on listener provided by the app remains in the merged config.

listeners = ['groovyx.gaelyk.GaelykServletContextListener','myapp.MyAppListener']

Hi

Thanks for the excellent framework to ease the GAE development.

I found one problem, when I tried to include obgaektify (obgaektify.appspot.com) in a glided app, it is not recognising the model classes for registering.
It throws exception with a message "No such property". But when I try with plain groovy app it works.

Will it be possible to include a sample app with Objectified models?
Basically I am trying to persist Parent/List and the sample didn't guide on this.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers
Kumaran

it would be nice if I can use CoffeeScript and LESS with Glide. As you are already copying/syncing files from one folder to another it might be quite simple to also process some files with compiler.

https://code.google.com/p/wro4j/ might be good fit for this or you can just use less4j etc.

that would clean the generated app dir

..so that we are not surprised by a missing feature

Currently every invocation of glide creates and exploded war in the same app dir. This is redundant. This is required only when dependencies have changed of the outputApp does not exists.

We can conditionally skip the execution of tasks.

war {
    setOnlyIf {
    }
}

With the new release (where we don't overlay two webapps), we have lost the ability to store static pages. We can create a generic servlet in glide filters (and may be call it glide runtime). We can map error pages to this servlet in glide filters.

Also, Ideally we should honor the request's content type. and send text/html/json/xml response accordingly.

Task queues are useful for certain kinds of apps. It would be nice to document where features such as task queues, cron actions, etc. go in a glide app.

When Running locally, after clean builds, the data disappears because the local db file is removed. Have a provision to preserve the file across cleans

Few dependencies make glide what it is, so we surely want to have them included no matter what, however let's give user ability to specify version of those dependencies, of course with a warning to not use unsupported versions of dependencies.

Such versions include : groovy, gae, gaelyk, sitemesh etc. create a special variable that user can

The type will be removed in Gradle 8.0.

workaround is: user can set the environment variable GLIDE_HOME to point to ${glide_dir}\install

Update the install manual to reference sdk instead of gvm. Talks now reference the newer name.

Hi!
I've inserted one template in my glide sample, but the CSS3 effects are not working very well.
If Glide support this kind of technology, how can I organize my static files?

• Sample on GitHub: https://github.com/jonatasemidio/restaurante_template_codrops
• Running original sample: http://tympanus.net/Development/RestaurantTemplate/
• Article about the template: http://tympanus.net/codrops/2011/04/21/restaurant-template/

OBS: Without glide, the sample is working well.

so that it becomes easy to edit a project

Currently when user downloads the runner, which happens to be a small download, it completes immediately. But when a glide app is run for the first time, and if user does not already have GAE SDK, then that starts downloading. And it is substantial download which gives user a first impression that glide runner is taking time.

If there is another target that can be run, either automatically or manually by user before the first app is run, then that would help user download all the required components before glide is actually run.

Not sure how feasible this would be, but if files put in src dir can be compiled on change and, test to be run automatically and app could be restarted, that would be great. Same applicable to files put in test, just run the tests again.

be careful about the auto-save IDE like idea. which will keep on saving file while typing which essentially means the WIP code will the picked up.

Sometimes it might be required to disable a feature. e.g. sitemesh or gaelyk template servlets. Configurations can be grouped and then can be controlled via a glide extension.

Instead of user having to install Glide, it can be made a gradle plugin and which will ease the burden of shipping it.

When originally glide was created, Gradle was not as ubiquitous as it is today. Also gradle can be downloaded by the wrapper script anyways and then which in turn can download glide/gae-sdk if required.

The plugin is kinda weird in sense that requires some command line tools installed, but overall that looks like plugin that will be supported going forward.

Hi,

I'm trying to get Glide up and running with the aim of building a small app for GAE.

I've installed from source with the install script as per the docs, and followed the quickstart guide to create the hello-glide app:

$ glide --app hello-glide create
$ cd hello-glide
$ glide 

Glide launches, and reports

     $ glide

      ___  _  _     _
     / __|| |(_) __| | ___
    | (_ || || |/ _` |/ -_)
     \___||_||_|\__,_|\___|

[touch] Creating /var/folders/07/sc96mpvx6yv519r98lph10b80000gn/T/glide-generated/hello-glide/app/WEB-INF/web.xml
[touch] Creating /var/folders/07/sc96mpvx6yv519r98lph10b80000gn/T/glide-generated/hello-glide/app/WEB-INF/appengine-web.xml
[touch] Creating /var/folders/07/sc96mpvx6yv519r98lph10b80000gn/T/glide-generated/hello-glide/app/WEB-INF/cron.xml
[touch] Creating /var/folders/07/sc96mpvx6yv519r98lph10b80000gn/T/glide-generated/hello-glide/app/WEB-INF/sitemesh3.xml
 [sync] Copying 13 files to /var/folders/07/sc96mpvx6yv519r98lph10b80000gn/T/glide-generated/hello-glide

...but nothing else, and http://localhost:8080 doesn't connect to anything.

I've attempted to modify the logging.properties to DEBUG for all entries in the /var/.../hello-glide/app/WEB-INF directory and relaunched, but no additional info was printed.

Is there something missing from my setup? Or is there a way I can diagnose the problem better?

Thanks,
Will

FYI:
OSX 10.9.4
Java 1.7.0_67
Glide version : 0.3.4 build : 6/09/14 10:45:49 AM