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Title:

Support mappings to archive files, similar to to Lucee Archives (.lar files)

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Status/Resolution/Reason: Needs Review//

Reporter/Name(from Bugbase): J S / J S (J S)

Created: 01/18/2016

Components: Core Runtime

Versions: 11.0

Failure Type: Enhancement Request

Found In Build/Fixed In Build: CF11_Final /

Priority/Frequency: Trivial / Unknown

Locale/System: English / Win All

Vote Count: 1

Lucee's ability to package CFML source into Lucee Archives (.lar files) has become foundational to our approach for deployments targeting that engine.  It would be a great benefit for our projects that use ACF to have something similar.

Must haves:
* Named mappings can be pointed to an archive file (ex. /mapping -> /path/to/archive.[jar | zip | <clever adobe extension... cfar?>] )
* Archive files can be added to the "Custom Tags Paths"
* These mappings should work whether set in the admin, or from within the application.cfc
* The CFML files within the archives can be either raw source, or encoded using cfcompile

Nice to haves:
* It should be configurable whether the files within these archives are web accessible.
* A utility like cfcompile that would take a directory of source CFML and turn it into a compatible archive file
* Auto deployment of archive files, or support for archives on the class path (etc. WEB-INF/lib)

----------------------------- Additional Watson Details -----------------------------

Watson Bug ID:	4108132

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External Customer Name: J S
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Apparently, the basic support is already there, it just needs to be fixed.  I can achieve most of what I want by using the following:

<pre>
// Application.cfc
component {
    this.customTagsPath = ArrayToList([
        "zip://c:/path/to/component/archive.zip" // theoretically, this should be all that is needed, as zip files can be added to mappings. however, there's a bug in the custom tags file registry where the paths do not have a '/' prefixed.
    ]);

    function onApplicationStart() {
        var att = application.getApplicationTagTable();
        var tfField = att.getClass().getDeclaredField("tagFiles");
        tfField.setAccessible(true);
        
        var tagFiles = tfField.get(att);
        
        var keys = tagFiles.keySet().toArray();

        // for each entry in the tagfiles, make sure  an additional key exists that is prefixed with a forward slash.
        for (var key in keys) {
            var slashKey = "/" & key;
            if (!key.startsWith("/") && !tagFiles.containsKey(slashKey)) {
                tagFiles.put(slashKey, tagFiles.get(key));
            }
        }
    }
}
</pre>

Now, I can load a "classpath" of coldfusion archives.  The only other problem is that ColdFusion opens a file lock on the archive files that I cannot release unless the server is shut down.  However, this is an 85% solution.

Comment by J S.

4883 | February 14, 2017 04:33:11 PM GMT

tracker issue : CF-4108132

Support mappings to archive files, similar to to Lucee Archives (.lar files)