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

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

Perfect.

so do you know what to do with CGI_Impersonator now?

-Lane

Hai-Chen Tu wrote:

> Lane,
>
>         I searched Servlet JavaDoc and found out that one can use
>         request.getSession().getServletContext() to retrieve the 
> servlet context.
>         This getServletContext() method is available since Servlet 2.3.
>
> Hai-Chen Tu
>
> At 01:22 PM 10/1/2004, Lane Sharman wrote:
>
>> Hai,
>>
>> I would deprecate the class or modify the class in support of the 
>> initiative and we will release 2.0 WM with this change as a release 
>> note. If you can modify CGIImpersonator and retain its functionality, 
>> do that. If not, we will deprecate the class entirely.
>>
>> -Lane
>>
>> Hai-Chen Tu wrote:
>>
>>> Lane,
>>>         I used $CGI for debugging purpose (dump form parameters)
>>>         but I can easily switch to $Request for the same result.
>>> Hai-Chen
>>>
>>> At 12:49 PM 10/1/2004, Lane Sharman wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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