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[servlet-spec users] Re: Implementation of new Servlet functionality?

From: arjan tijms <arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 08:32:27 +0200

Thanks for the update Greg, I'll check again in June then.

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 3:31 AM, Greg Wilkins <gregw_at_webtide.com> wrote:

>
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com> CTO http://webtide.com
>