All processing within Cocoon is handled within a pipeline. i.e. input, zero or more processing stages, and ultimately some output.

Processing steps are modelled as different types of Components, the simplest pipeline is:

Therefore a pipeline consists of a generator, zero or more transformers and a serializer. A pipeline may also define its own ErrorHandling.

Requests to Cocoon are mapped to pipeline by a Matcher or a Selector. These are configured in the Sitemap.

Aggregator allow pipeline to be configured into a hierarchy, producing a compound document.

Definition

The map:pipeline element can contain:

  • map:match – Selects pipeline processing depending on Matcher
  • map:select, map:when, map:otherwise – Selector pipeline processing depending on Selector
  • map:mount – Mounts a sub Sitemap
  • map:redirect-to – Redirects to another pipeline
  • map:parameter – Defines additional parameters for the sitemap components
  • map:act – Peform Action processing
  • map:generate – Defines the Generator step
  • map:aggregate, map:part – Defines an alternate generation step by merging pipelines
  • map:transform – Defines zero or more Transformer steps
  • map:serialize – Defines the final Serializer step
  • map:handle-errors – ErrorHandling

Types of Pipeline

  • Normal pipelines
  • Internal pipelines – can't be accessed externally, can only be addressed from within a sitemap. Specified by internal-only="true" attribute on map:pipeline
  • Resource pipelines – basically normal pipelines that act as reusable definitions that can be called by others. See Resources
  • Error pipelines – defined within handle-errors section. Fixed error Generator which is provided automatically by Cocoon, subsequent processing under user definition. See ErrorHandling
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