In the previous post about the Iliad Framework we build a basic web application that, in the default controller, write an “Hello World” HTML.
Now we will try to clarify how the Front Controller framework
works. Every controller (remember that it must be in the controllers
protocol) is mapped to a “page” of your application.
These things are best explained with an example. A controlled named
firstTest in an application whose path method returns
leonardoBlog will be mapped to the URL leonardoBlog/firstTest.
In the same way the controller secondTest will we mapped to
leonardoBlog/secondTest. The only exception is the index
controller that being the default controller is mapped to the
application URL: leonardoBlog. Enough said. Let’s add some code to
our application.
We create another controller named firstTest like this:
"LcBlogHelloIliad>>firstTest (protocol controllers)"
firstTest
^ [ :e | e h1: 'This in the first test'.
e a linkToLocal: 'index'; text: 'Go to the index controller' ]
Now if we go to http://localhost:7070/leonardoBlog/firstTest we should see the result of the new controller.
We also created a link to the index controller using the method
linkToLocal: of the ILLinkableElement class. Note that we haven’t
specified the URL of the application. If you will need to change the
url of the application you will not have to remember when you have put
the application name.
We can also modify the original index controller to include a link
to the firstTest page like this:
"LcBlogHelloIliad>>index (protocol controllers)"
index
^ [ :e | e h1: 'Hi world!'.
e a linkToLocal: 'firstTest'; text: 'Go to firstTest controller' ]
The next post is here.