Tapestry 5.4 URL rewriting and SEO URLs

Question

i'm writing a web application in tapestry. In my application i want to use friendly urls. Now i'm able to to render the url page like this:

http://localhost:8080/page/page-name

wat i want to do is to render URLs like this:

http://localhost:8080/page-name

All pages are stored on a Postgresql DB. I'm currently using Tapestry 5.4-beta16 and i've already read the tapestry documentation:

http://tapestry.apache.org/url-rewriting.html

http://blog.tapestry5.de/index.php/2010/09/06/new-url-rewriting-api/

Now, this is the Class for list all pages stored on the DB (Only for test)

public class Pages {

  @Inject
  private Session session;

  @Property
  List<it.garuti.tapestrycms.entities.Pagine> pagine;

  @Property
  private it.garuti.tapestrycms.entities.Pagine pagina;


  void setupRender() {

      pagine = session.createCriteria(it.garuti.tapestrycms.entities.Pagine.class).list();

  }

}

And this is the class for show the page content:

public class Page {

@Property
private Page page;

@Inject
private Logger logger;

@Inject
private Session session;

@Inject
Request request;


@InjectPage
Index index;

@Property
private String slug;



 void onActivate(String slug) {

    this.slug = slug;

}

Object onActivate() {
    if (session.createCriteria(Pagine.class)
            .add(Restrictions.eq("slug", slug)).uniqueResult() == null)
        return     new HttpError(404, "Resource not found");
    return null;
}

String onPassivate() {
    return slug;
}

void setupRender() {
    page = (Pages) session.createCriteria(Pages.class)
            .add(Restrictions.eq("slug", slug)).uniqueResult();

}
}

And finally the Entity for Pages:

@Entity

@Table(name = "pages", schema = "public")
public class Pages implements Serializable {

@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator = "pagine_seq")
@SequenceGenerator( name= "pagine_seq", sequenceName = "pagine_id_seq")
@Column(name = "id", unique = true, nullable = false)
private long id;

@Column(name = "titolo", nullable = false, length = 60, unique = true)
private String titolo;

@Column(name = "slug", nullable = false, length = 60, unique = true)
private String slug;

@Column(name = "contenuto", nullable = false, columnDefinition = "TEXT")
private String contenuto;

@Column(name = "data_creazione", nullable = false)
private Date dataCreazione;

@Column(name = "data_modifica")
private Date dataModifica;

@Column(name = "stato", nullable = false)
private String stato;

@ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
@JoinColumn(name = "utente_id", nullable = false)
private Users user;

getter and setter...
....
}

Tank You Lorenzo

Answer 1

There's a special case in tapestry when your page class has the name Index it will not include the page name in the URL. So if you rename the class Page to Index I think you'll achieve what you want without requiring any explicit url rewriting