[CLK-738] Provide a mechanism to map Page classes in specific package to a particular URL path

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.0
• Component/s: core
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Han
• Created: 15/Dec/10 00:41
• Updated: 15/Dec/10 00:58
• Resolved: 15/Dec/10 00:58

Description

It will be good if there is a mechanism to map Page classes within a particular package to a specific URL.
For example, I have Page classes sitting in the following packages:

com.mycorp.page.admin
com.mycorp.page.workspace
com.mycorp.page.public

I would like to be able to configure the following mapping:

/secured/user_admin.htm --> com.mycorp.page.admin.UserAdminPage.java
/secured/workspace_admin.htm --> com.mycorp.page.admin.WorkspaceAdminPage.java
/secured/workspace_dashboard.htm --> com.mycorp.page.workspace.WorkspaceDashboardPage.java
/public_notice.htm --> com.mycorp.page.public.PublicNoticePage.htm

So basically, I would like to map all the pages in 'com.mycorp.page.admin' and 'com.mycorp.page.workspace' to the path '/secured',
and map all the pages in 'com.mycorp.page.public' to the root directory of the webapp.

By doing so, this would provide me the following benefits:
1. Maintain independence between the URL path and the package structure
2. Easily configure security framework such as Shiro or Acegi to protect URL path