Improve CSP Generation

[rbugajewski]

When using CSP, the drogon_ctl command creates its build artifacts in the same directory as the *.csp files. This is quite annoying, because it pollutes a directory that is supposed to be part of the source files. For example when I have a template called About.csp, I get the following files as a result:

• About.cc
• About.h
• About.so
• About.so.dSYM/

As these files aren’t meant to be user-editable, I would greatly prefer to have them reside in a completely different directory.

[an-tao]

@rbugajewski If you use drogon_ctl to create a project(drogon_ctl create project ...), you will find some lines in the CMakeLists.txt file as follows:

file(GLOB SCP_LIST ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/views/*.csp)
foreach(cspFile ${SCP_LIST})
    message(STATUS "cspFile:" ${cspFile})
    get_filename_component(classname ${cspFile} NAME_WE)
    message(STATUS "view classname:" ${classname})
    ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(OUTPUT ${classname}.h ${classname}.cc
            COMMAND drogon_ctl
            ARGS create view ${cspFile}
            DEPENDS ${cspFile}
            VERBATIM )
    set(VIEWSRC ${VIEWSRC} ${classname}.cc)
endforeach()

This means that you do not need to manually create the source files for views. These files are created automatically by cmake in the building directory.
I don't know if this will help you, but I will add extra parameters to this command to support creating source files in the target directory

[rbugajewski]

@an-tao Thanks for your answer, in fact I’ve already set it up this way. Maybe this is related to the load_dynamic_views configuration variable (that is really nice during development) and I wrongly assumed this would be because of drogon_ctl?

[an-tao]

Oh, I get it. If load_dynamic_views is enabled, drogon will automatically create source files in the path where the csp files are located and compile them. I haven't thought about it carefully, sorry. I will find a solution.

[an-tao]

@rbugajewski I added a new option dynamic_views_output_path to the configuration file, and now drogon search scp files recursively in the dynamic view pathes.
Please check, thanks.

[rbugajewski]

I just checked out and smoke tested the dev branch. As an example it is now possible to have a navigation layout in views/components/Navigation.csp separated from the “main content” templates and to reference the navigation layout in a main view with <%view Navigation %>.

Thank you very much.