"sencha app watch" proxy configuration

[marco.jahn.pd]

Hi all,

is there any possibility to configure a proxy when using "sencha app watch" cmd ?

The command is starting a webserver on localhost:1841

What I want to do is to be able to configure a specific path on the URL which should be redirected to another machine/port

E.g
http://localhost:1841/rest
/rest should be redirected (configurable) to localhost:8080/rest

Maybe similiar configuration options as availble here (maybe simpler/less): https://github.com/drewzboto/grunt-connect-proxy

[marco.jahn.pd]

Ok, maybe to get some feedback

Implementation hints/discussion or just some opinions
Open items:
- detailed implementation
- configuration possibilities

com.sencha.util.http Server.class

// new, more glue code skipped
private createProxyConfigObject(String path, String host, int port) {
    return new ProxyConfigObject(path, host, port);
}


// existing, to be modified
private Server(Responder responder, int port) {
    this(port);
    if(responder instanceof Member) {
        ((Member)responder).join(this._stopper);
    }


    /* modifcation
    - missing parameters (proxyPath, proxyHost, proxyPort) must be configurable
    - must be able to use multiple remote configurations (loop needed) */
    ProxyConfigObject pco = this.createProxyConfigObject(proxyPath, proxyHost, proxyPort);
    this.mount(pco, (Responder)responder);


    // original
    this.mount("/", (Responder)responder);
}


// new mount for remote ProxyConfigObject
public void mount (ProxyConfigObject pco) {
    // http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/stable-8/apidocs/org/eclipse/jetty/servlets/ProxyServlet.Transparent.html#proxyHttpURI(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String,%20int,%20java.lang.String)
    // use ProxyServlet.Transparent


    // ...
    // more glue code within here


    context.addServlet(new ProxyServlet.Transparent(pco.getPath(), pco.getHost, pco.getPort() ), "/" + pco.getPath());
    // ...
} 

com.sencha.util.http DispatchServlet.class

/*
    remote proxy urls must be excluded from being dispatched, stackoverflow example
    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3125296/can-i-exclude-some-concrete-urls-from-url-pattern-inside-filter-mapping
*/ 

[marco.jahn.pd]

Hi,

any update/feedback from any of the Sencha CMD devs ?

kind regards,

[Scorpie]

+1, want to know this as well!

[bhutten]

+1 Has anyone figured out how to do this with Cmd 5?

[EPV]

+ 1

If you have configurations in your own web server that's needed (vhost with proxyPass, Alias etc.) it's impossible to use sencha cmd built in server.

I have posted i thread about Fashion+Configurable web server in the premium forums:
https://www.sencha.com/forum/showthr...own-webbserver

/ E

[HerbiePorter]

+1 I would have thought this was a common requirement. If we can't do this with CMD is there any workarounds people know off? Currently I host my ExtJS app in a JVM Embedded Jetty. Great for deployment but poor for development as I miss out on all the features of CMD.
Cheers Herbie

[steenole]

+1
This is last bit of the puzzle for us, in order to use Sencha Cmd as it is intended. It does not make sense to run our applications without access to the web services.

[HerbiePorter]

+1 This would be really really handy.

[vijay0507]

This is a must have feature for quick development. +1