How do I override physical asset paths in lithium li3

Question

I'd like to override the paths lithium uses to retrieve assets but am not sure how to do that.

Using the Media::assets method doesn't seem to have any affect accept that it changes the Url that the Html::script helper uses.

How do I appropriately override the real path that lithium uses for assets? Below is an example of how I tried to override the asset paths for javascript files:

Media::assets('js', array(
    'suffix' => '.js',
    'filter' => null,
    'theme' => 'blue',
    'paths' => array(
        '{:base}/{:library}/themes/{:theme}/public/js/{:path}' => array('base', 'library', 'theme', 'path'),
        '{:base}/{:library}/themes/default/public/js/{:path}' => array('base', 'library', 'path')
    )
));

Answer 1

Can you elaborate more about what you mean by retrieving assets and real path?

Media::assets function does exactly what it is expected from it, to set the paths used by Media::asset() which is currently used by the default path handler in lithium\template\view\Renderer. The problem is that the default path handler does not seem to pass a library option, so my guess is the {:library} token will always be replaced with the basename of your default library path.

I don't see why you would need to fiddle with the default paths though. Plus you can always use absolute path by adding / prefix when you use Html::script function.