[sakai2-tcc] Filtering Content served from CHS

Aaron Zeckoski aaronz at vt.edu
Fri Dec 10 08:59:55 PST 2010


Let me just start over then. Here is the use case:
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I am a system admin (or tool writer) and I need to add a custom bit to
the top of every page (like some CSS or JS). I can do this by
modifying the portal code (which is not awesome but it is at least
possible) but I don't want to have to
rebuild the system just to add a JS or CSS include. For resources
content however, it is impossible for me as a novice developer to
adjust the head of the page. I can manage something fairly
straightforward like a provider or a system config option but I can't
deal with modifying and rebuilding the kernel/access project. I make a
tweak to the system config (or something similar) and now some extra
content is added to head of every page rendered in the system.
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And here is the problem we have seen come up:
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The resource content is rendered as invalid markup and/or not in the
style of the rest of the system and/or outside the portal. Most users
don't think of resource content as being outside the system/portal
(even though the way it is rendered, it is).
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It seems like something that wraps the resource content could fix
these issues, though it would need to be controllable by the system
admin without a rebuild of the kernel (which is something we should
strive to avoid anyway).

I hope this restatement of the goal and problem are more clear.

-AZ


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