At current certain interfaces exist that assume only local assets will be loaded (e.g. `SilverStripe\Forms\HTMLEditor\TinyMCEConfig::getConfig()`), where as someone may wish to load an off site resource via the use of an absolute URL (e.g. for fontawesome css provided via a CDN). Because asset path parsing is filtered through a `SilverStripe\Core\Manifest\ResourceURLGenerator`, one must either know in advance if they want an internal or external resource (loading different generators), or the API must allow for this (i.e. an inclusion function for each type of asset). So we can either double the API on the implementing class, or simply make an exception for an absolute URL as high as possible; inside the filter - for which the `vendor/module : path/to/file.asset` shorthand syntax was specifically designed not to conflict with.
It's currently broken (doesn't rewrite subsequent links),
and is of questionable use. It was introduced during a time
when PHP didn't have a built-in webserver (I think).
Virtually ever webserver will have rewriting capabilities these days (even IIS!),
and if you struggle with the setup as a new user, you can just fall back to PHP's built-in webserver.
This doesn't affect installation capabilities, since these are triggered via install.php.
NEW: URL generation now handled by pluggable ResourceURLGenerator service.
NEW: Requirements::javascript() and Requirements::css() now support “vendor/package:resource” syntax.
These changes will make it easier to us to fully abstract:
- file access from module location
- file location from URL generation
API: ModulePath template global now takes any composer package name.
NEW: URL generation now handled by pluggable ResourceURLGenerator service.
NEW: Requirements::javascript() and Requirements::css() now support “vendor/package:resource” syntax.
These changes will make it easier to us to fully abstract:
- file access from module location
- file location from URL generation
BUG Fix up test regressions
FIX director references to request object
API Move all middlewares to common namespace
API Implement RequestHandlerMiddlewareAdapter
ENHANCEMENT Improve IP address parsing
Fix up PHPDoc / psr2 linting
BUG Fix property parsing in TrustedProxyMiddleware
BUG Fix Director::is_https()