This library defines an object you can bound in the URL space (via Stapler) to compile LESS files from classpath and serve them as CSS files. This enables modular web applications to compose their LESS files at runtime to enable late binding.
To use it, expose LessServer from your URL space (for example by binding it to a field of your "App" class.)
class App {
public final LessServer less_css = new LessServer(...);
}
Then request to /less_css/foo/bar/zot.less.css would compile and render foo/bar/zot.less in your classpath.
To prevent leaking the class files and other potentially sensitive information inside the program, LessServer
only serves *.less files.
LESS compilation is very time consuming, so this library implements caching on disk.
This library relies on lesscss-java, which in turn uses Rhino to run the original version of the less compiler. lesscss-java is in many ways poorly implemented, so if this concept proves to be successful, we need to significantly refactor lesscss-java.
Modify AdjunctManager to do this as a pluggability so that CSS can refer to other static resources in relative paths.