Re: [WebMacro-user] creating CGI_Impersonator in Webmacro-Spring env

[Lane S. <la...@op...>]

cgi impersonator is not a mainline class and could be deprecated to 
support this initiative.

-Lane

Hai-Chen Tu wrote:

> Sebastian,
>     I searched all the ContextTools code and found that
>     CGI_Impersonator is the only class that needs to
>     access ServletContext and it also assumes that
>     the broker is a ServletBroker (see code below).
>
>            CGI_Impersonator(WebContext wc) {
>                   requst_ = wc.getRequest();
>                   // this is not very nice, but I don't see any other
>                   // possibility to get the servlet context. We should
>             // provide a method in WebContext to hide this from our 
> users.
>                   sc_ = ((ServletBroker) 
> wc.getBroker()).getServletContext();
>            }
>
>     Without this problem, I think we can use a regular WM (i.e., not
>     initialized with a ServletBroker) as the base for WebMacro engine 
> in Spring.
>     And we can use WebContext inside WebMacroView for servlet 
> application and
>     regular Context for other usages (e.g., email templates).
>
>     Also, I think the main reasons for having 
> Servlet20Broker/Servlet22Broker are
>     to add few more places for locating property files, templates, and 
> other
>     resources and to use ServletContext.log(...) for logging purpose. 
> They probably
>     should be replaced by Spring-friendly ones, e.g.,  like the way 
> your have
>     implemented.
>
>     So the question now is how to address the CGI issue. Comments?
> Hai-Chen Tu
>
>
>
>
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