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[jsr369-experts] Re: [servlet-spec users] [141-GenericFilter/HttpFilter] ACTION: PROPOSAL

From: Mark Thomas <markt_at_apache.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 09:04:17 +0100

On 06/10/2015 01:36, Shing Wai Chan wrote:
> If we have abstract base filters, do we still need no-ops default filter
> methods?

Maybe for people that don't want to use the abstract base classes?

> Shing Wai Chan
>
> On 10/5/15, 3:29 PM, Edward Burns wrote:
>> Here's another one I'd like to get in for EDR. Like
>> 142-ListenerDefaultMethods, this one came from the users list.
>>
>> I've uploaded a snapshot of the javadoc to [1] but basically this adds:
>>
>> * Default no-op methods in javax.servlet.Filter
>>
>> destroy()
>>
>> init()
>>
>> * New abstract class javax.servlet.GenericFilter [2]
>>
>> * New abstract class javax.servlet.http.HttpFilter [3]
>>
>> Please weigh in on these by 17:00 PDT Wednesday 2015-10-07.

I know these are based on the Servlet equivalents but the log() methods
were a bad idea that I don't think we should carry over to Filters.


Other than that +1.

Mark