RE: [FormProc-developer] Data from session Object

[Nicholas S. <ni...@sa...>]

Hi Anthony


I checked out the extended HttpForm. That's pretty much the kind of thing
except where you cast the object
to String from the session I think it might be safer to use

Object o = session.getAttribute(key);
String s = o.toString();

in order to avoid class cast problems if different classes(to String) were
stored in the session.

Of course initially this approach will still limit one to strings and
numbers. More exciting objects would require the toString method overriden
to return a serialised form of data that could be reconstructed in a
converter object.

The HttpForm pooling mechanism should probably be put in an extended
FormManager maybe PooledFormManager which could be a singleton containing
the pool of FormObjects wrapped in a container Object to handle returning
them to the Pool.
It shouldn't be too difficult. Jakarta have an Object Pooling project. I'll
have a look at the problem over the next week or so and get back to you when
I have a working version.

Regards

Nick Sanderson