System CSS Resources and how they are "batched" up and served

[Matthew J. Horn]

Does anyone have any information about how the system CSS resources are batched up and included in the output of Confluence?

I suspect they are some sort of combination of the various (indeed, over a hundred) CSS files that are in the server's includes/CSS directory. What I am really looking to find out, though, is how the path to them is generated and if it's possible to configure it somehow.

Here's the source of my Confluence pages:

<!-- include system css resources -->


    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/confluence/s/en_GB/3280/311/74/_/download/superbatch/css/batch.css" media="all">
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/confluence/s/en_GB/3280/311/74/_/download/superbatch/css/batch.css?conditionalComment=lt+IE+9" media="all">
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 9]>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/confluence/s/en_GB/3280/311/74/_/download/superbatch/css/batch.css?conditionalComment=IE+9" media="all">
<![endif]-->
<!--[if lte IE 9]>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/confluence/s/en_GB/3280/311/74/_/download/superbatch/css/batch.css?conditionalComment=lte+IE+9" media="all">
<![endif]-->
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/confluence/s/en_GB/3280/311/74/_/download/superbatch/css/batch.css?media=print" media="print">
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/confluence/s/en_GB/3280/311/6b2b2920754c128068fcb8ecd4257979/_/download/contextbatch/css/page/batch.css" media="all">
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/confluence/s/en_GB/3280/311/8b2de37e35c1b0ebc4cb87df5ac34feb/_/download/contextbatch/css/plugin.quick.comment.pre/batch.css" media="all">
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/confluence/s/en_GB/3280/311/d576eafece8d844c99688982ab89d7a8/_/download/contextbatch/css/viewcontent,main/batch.css?conditionalComment=lt+IE+9" media="all">
<![endif]-->
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/confluence/s/en_GB/3280/311/d576eafece8d844c99688982ab89d7a8/_/download/contextbatch/css/viewcontent,main/batch.css" media="all">
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/confluence/s/en_GB/3280/311/8d5ca2739e2ee681538596648a9970f8/_/download/contextbatch/css/atl.general/batch.css" media="all">
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/confluence/s/en_GB/3280/311/19/_/styles/colors.css?spaceKey=mainmain" media="all">
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/confluence/s/en_GB/3280/311/1.0/_/download/resources/com.atlassian.confluence.themes.default:styles/default-theme.css" media="all">
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/confluence/s/en_GB/3280/311/19/_/styles/custom.css?spaceKey=mainmain" media="all">

<!-- end system css resources -->

[Amalia · Accepted solution]

I hope this link is useful :)

https://developer.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Web+Resource+Module#WebResourceModule-BatchedMode

According to our developer, Confluence's super batch is configured manually in the pluginServiceContext.xml file in the resourceBatchingConfiguration bean.

<bean id="resourceBatchingConfiguration"
          class="com.atlassian.confluence.plugin.webresource.ConfluenceResourceBatchingConfiguration">
        <constructor-arg index="0">
            <bean class="java.util.ArrayList">
                <constructor-arg index="0">
                    <list>
                        <!-- aui -->
                        <value>com.atlassian.auiplugin:ajs</value>
                        <value>com.atlassian.auiplugin:jquery-compatibility</value>

                        <!-- just in case -->
                        <value>confluence.web.resources:ajs</value>
                        <value>confluence.web.resources:jquery</value>
                        <value>confluence.web.resources:raphael</value>

                        <!-- confluence components -->
                        <value>com.atlassian.confluence.restplugin:confluence-rest</value>
                        <value>confluence.web.components:core</value>
                        <value>confluence.web.components:property-panel</value>
....

[Matthew J. Horn]

It does, thanks! This page mentions scriptaculous, which I think is deprecated, but otherwise it contains some useful information. I was not able to uncover this page in my googling, so hopefully a few links to it will give it some juice.