- Remove signature render( File, File ), it can by default just call render( File, File, null )
- Replace render( File, File, File ) by render( File, File, DocumentModel ). Reason: we have to be able to generate some output without a physical documentDescriptor File. Eg for a maven pdf plugin, we could construct the information from site.xml and pom settings.
- Remove throws IOException; ? DocRendererException should be enough.
- What's the relation with org.apache.maven.doxia.siterenderer.DocumentRenderer and org.apache.maven.doxia.siterenderer.DoxiaDocumentRenderer?
Interface changes
ad 1) and 2): I propose to replace DocRenderer by DocumentRenderer:
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+1: ltheussl, vsiveton
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Directory structure
Layout like:
+---o.a.m.d.docrenderer DocumentRenderer.java ... +---o.a.m.d.docrenderer.pdf PdfRenderer.java +---o.a.m.d.docrenderer.pdf.fo FoPdfRenderer.java +---o.a.m.d.docrenderer.pdf.itext ITextPdfRenderer.java +---o.a.m.d.docrenderer.rtf
+1: ltheussl, vsiveton
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Hide/Show CommentsSep 12, 2007
Vincent Siveton
For 3, Renderer interface (site-renderer) also throws IOException so we need to be constant.
For 4, I am not sure what you mean: DoxiaDocumentRenderer is the impl of DocumentRenderer.
Maybe you ask you about org.apache.maven.doxia.docrenderer.DocRenderer and org.apache.maven.doxia.siterenderer.DocumentRenderer?
Sep 12, 2007
Lukas Theussl
I meant: what is the relation/difference between org.apache.maven.doxia.siterenderer.DocumentRenderer and org.apache.maven.doxia.docrenderer.DocRenderer? They seem to be meant for doing quite the same thing...