Sorry, our Servlet 4.0 work has been pushed back a bit. We are unlikely
to get time to implement until June.
On 9 May 2016 at 22:37, arjan tijms <arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Greg, Stuart, did you already succeeded in implementing this in Jetty
> resp. Undertow? If so, any gotcha's encountered?
>
> Kind regards,
> Arjan Tijms
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Mark Thomas <markt_at_apache.org> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I've updated Tomcat's implementation as follows:
>>
>> - added RequestDispatcher.FORWARD_MAPPING
>> - added RequestDispatcher.INCLUDE_MAPPING
>> - s/getMatchType/getMappingMatch/
>> - added Mapping.getServletName()
>> - removed MappingMatch.IMPLICIT
>>
>> The behaviour for forward/include is the same as for the other
>> forward/include attributes.
>>
>> This will be included in the next milestone release (early May) be if
>> folks want to test this sooner than that, let me know and I'll publish a
>> snapshot.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> On 07/04/2016 00:32, Stuart Douglas wrote:
>> > Yes, I think returning a mapping of *.jsp when the request is to /home
>> > would just cause confusion, as in this case the jsp implicit mapping
>> > does not have anything to do with the request.
>> >
>> > I am not sure about getDescriptor(), I can't really see a use case for
>> > it. A filter or servlet should not care where it came from, and a
>> > human should already know (or be easily able to find out by looking at
>> > the source).
>> >
>> > Stuart
>> >
>> > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Greg Wilkins <gregw_at_webtide.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 7 April 2016 at 09:20, Stuart Douglas <stuart.w.douglas_at_gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I was just thinking about this a bit more and it might be useful to
>> >>> include the target Servlet name in the mapping result, so a filter
>> could
>> >>> tell exactly what Servlet the request is targeted at (we could even
>> take it
>> >>> one step further and include a list of the filter names that will
>> process
>> >>> the request, although I don't know what the use case would be).
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> So for clarity, I'm when we have a mapping like:
>> >>
>> >> <servlet>
>> >> <servlet-name>home</servlet-name>
>> >> <jsp-file>/jsp/Home.jsp</jsp-file>
>> >> </servlet>
>> >> <servlet-mapping>
>> >> <servlet-name>home</servlet-name>
>> >> <url-pattern>/home</url-pattern>
>> >> </servlet-mapping>
>> >>
>> >> The mapping reported will be the /home mapping rather than any *.jsp
>> >> implicit pattern.
>> >>
>> >> You are suggesting that we add getServletName to the Mapping, which in
>> this
>> >> case would return "home" I see value in that.
>> >>
>> >> There may even be value in a getDescriptor() method that would give a
>> text
>> >> description of what descriptor the mapping was from: web.xml, fragment
>> >> web.xml from a particular jar, annotation on a particular class etc.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com> CTO http://webtide.com
>>
>>
>
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