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<page
    xmlns:cinclude="http://apache.org/cocoon/include/1.0"
>
    <content>
        <p>
            <em>Adapted from Tony Collen's GettingStartedWithFlow page on the Cocoon wiki.</em>
        </p>
        <p>
            In this example, an HTML
            form is shown repeatedly, until the user guesses the correct number.
        </p>
        <p>
            Start the game <a href="../number-guess/startGuessNumber">here</a>.
        </p>

        <h2>The sitemap</h2>
        <p>
            At the sitemap level, Flowscript applications need four things:
            <ul>
                <li>The Flowscript code must be made available to the sitemap</li>
                <li>
                    A <em>map:call function</em> instruction must start
                    the Flowscript function when the "application start"
                    request is received
                </li>
                <li>
                    A pipeline must use <em>map:call continuation</em> to activate
                    continuations when their IDs are received in requests
                </li>
                <li>
                    A "view" pipeline must use the (Flowscript-aware) JXTemplate generator
                    to insert data provided by Flowscript into pages.
                </li>
            </ul>
            The corresponding excerpts of our sitemap are shown below.
        </p>
        <h3>Flowscript declaration</h3>
        <p>Note that this already contains the declaration of the next example's Flowscript.</p>
        <cinclude:include element="xml-code" src="cocoon:/xml-element/flow/sitemap.xmap/flow"/>

        <h3>map:call function</h3>
        <p>
            Here we use variables to allow any Flowscript function to be called, with a simple security
            restriction: the function name must start with the <em>public_</em> prefix.
        </p>
        <p>
            The maxValue parameter is used by our Flowscript <em>public_startGuessNumber</em> function,
            but doesn't hurt if it is passed to other functions (like in the next example).
        </p>
        <cinclude:include element="xml-code" src="cocoon:/xml-element/flow/sitemap.xmap/start"/>

        <h3>map:call continue</h3>
        <p>
            This activates a Flowscript continuation when an URL ending with a continuation ID and the
            <em>.continue</em> suffix is received.
        </p>
        <cinclude:include element="xml-code" src="cocoon:/xml-element/flow/sitemap.xmap/continue"/>

        <h3>View pipeline using JXTemplageGenerator</h3>
        <p>
            To be able to include data provided by Flowscript in our forms and views, we
            use the Flowscript-aware JXTemplateGenerator
        </p>
        <p>Here's the pipeline</p>
        <cinclude:include element="xml-code" src="cocoon:/xml-element/flow/sitemap.xmap/views"/>

        <p>Which uses this resource to convert the page to HTML</p>
        <cinclude:include element="xml-code" src="cocoon:/xml-element/flow/sitemap.xmap/html"/>

        <p>And here's the JXTemplate component declaration</p>
        <cinclude:include element="xml-code" src="cocoon:/xml-element/flow/sitemap.xmap/generators"/>

        <h2>Flowscript code</h2>
        <p>
            Here's the complete Flowscript code that drives the number-guessing game.
            (sorry about the lost indentation, the Slop block, which generates these listings, has been
            improved in the meantime).
        </p>
        <cinclude:include element="flowscript-code" src="cocoon:/text-file/flow/number-guess/guess-number.js"/>

        <h2>JXTemplate view</h2>
        <p>
            The JXTemplateGenerator makes Flowscript variables (like the
            <em>toGuess</em> and <em>hint</em> attributes of the <em>sendPageAndWait</em>
            call above) accessible using a simple substitution syntax.
        </p>
        <p>
            Here's the page definition for our number-guessing form.
            JXTemplate codes like <em>${cocoon.continuation.id}</em>, will by replaced
            by values provided in the Flowscript <em>sendPageAndWait</em> function call.
        </p>
        <cinclude:include element="xml-code" src="cocoon:/xml-element/flow/number-guess/guess.xml/page"/>

        <h2>That's it!</h2>
        <p>
            We have now seen the complete code of our Flowscript application:
            <ul>
                <li>A few sitemap declarations, which will be very similar for other Flowscript-based applications</li>
                <li>A JXTemplate-based view, a "normal" page with some substitution codes</li>
                <li>The Flowscript itself</li>
            </ul>
            We didn't have to write much code to implement this,
            and more importantly <em>all the code that we wrote is application-specific</em>.
            The Cocoon framework provides all the infrastructure.
        </p>

    </content>
</page>