Please Help: Environment Control Interceptor and AppMapping

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Hey All,

It’s been a while but I just got asked to help work on a large project redesigning the intranet for the Fish and Wildlife Service and we are using ColdBox 2.6.3.

I am trying to setup environment control since we are using svn and have development versions of the application in various branches and then a staging version in the trunk. In the Coldbox config I have added the following interceptor definition at the top of the interceptor definitions (tested both fireOnInit=true and false):

config/environments.xml.cfm true

Then I have the following environments in the config:

If I hit the page on our dev server for Jon’s branch (http://server.com/ver/branches/jon) it is still loading the AppMapping value that is set in the main coldbox config (identical to the trunk environment). For instnce, #buildLink(‘blog’)# returns http://server.com/ver/trunk/index.cfm/blog

Can the Environment Control Interceptor be used to override the AppMapping setting defined in the coldbox config? If so, why would it not be working?

Thanks for your help!!!

-Aaron

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OK, I was having a brain fart. Of coarse CGI.HTTP_HOST is not going to detect /jon/ in the url. So what I need to do is override the DetectEnvironment method and set it to part the CGI.SCRIPT_NAME instead. I see that this can be done (http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/trac.cgi/wiki/cbEnvironmentControl#ExtendingTheInterceptor) but not how.

How do I override that method?

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Ok, I almost forgot what OOP is and how to override methods. LOL. So this is what I did.

I created an EnvironmentControl component in my interceptors folder that extends the coldbox EnvironmentControl interceptor:

for(i=1; i lte ArrayLen(arguments.environmentsArray); i=i+1){ if ( listFindNoCase(trim(arguments.environmentsArray[i].XMLAttributes.urls),cgi.script_name) ){ //Place the ENVIRONMENT on the settings structure. setSetting("ENVIRONMENT", trim(arguments.environmentsArray[i].XMLAttributes.name)); return trim(arguments.environmentsArray[i].XMLAttributes.name); break; } } return "";

Then in the config I define the EnvironmentControl interceptor to look for my version:

config/environments.xml.cfm true

Which is almost acceptable except that now I have to change the path to the interceptor class in the config for each environment. The path “/ver/branches/jon/” is going to have to be changed before committed to the trunk for staging.

Is there a way to make it so that I don’t have hard code the path to my custom EnvironmentControl interceptor?

Thanks,
Aaron

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Man. It’s still not working! How can I change the detectEnvironment method so that behaves the same as the original except instead of being based on CGI.HTTP_HOST it is based on CGI.SCRIPT_NAME? I thought changing that below would work but its not:

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This is what I ended up coming up with:

for(i=1; i lte ArrayLen(arguments.environmentsArray); i=i+1){ list=trim(arguments.environmentsArray[i].XMLAttributes.urls); for(j=1; j lte listlen(list); j=j+1){ url=listGetAt(list,j); name=trim(arguments.environmentsArray[i].XMLAttributes.name); if (cgi.script_name CONTAINS url){ //Place the ENVIRONMENT on the settings structure. setSetting("ENVIRONMENT", name); return name; break; } } } return "";

It appears to work!