On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Emily Lynema wrote:
I'm looking around for tools to implement cool uris in java. I've been
studying the restlet framework tonight, and while it sounds cool, I think it
would also require a complete re-write of an application that is currently
based on the Servlet API. And, of course, I'm working under a time crunch.
Is there anything out there to assist me in working with cool uris besides
just using regular expressions when parsing URLs?
For example, I'd like to create URLs like:
http://catalog.lib.ncsu.edu/record/123456
instead of:
http://catalog.lib.ncsu.edu/record?id=1234565
I don't know enough about what you're doing, but you can have one program
handle both cases .. wherever it's doing it's input validatation, the
logic is basically:
if ( request.getQueryString )
parse_query_string()
else if ( request.getPathInfo )
parse_path_info()
else
set_defaults()
...
And you don't need regular expressions for processing the PATH_INFO -- as
it's positional just take the string, and split on '/', and assign them to
whatever the corresponding named parameter is.
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Joe Hourcle
