Hello to everyone, after just reading for some week it's now time for my first own question.
I want to integrate a legacy application in a website based on Sling (in Day CQ5). This legacy application renders itself using Portlets, so it enforces the use of POST forms if the user submits any data. The application is embedded using RequestDispatcher.include(req,res). Now we all know about the magic SlingPostServlet, but in this case I obviously don't want to use it. In case of a POST, I want just to display the page as usual and pass the request to the embedded application. The page is based on components, which are included using RequestDispatcher.include(req,res). The page and all components inherit from SlingSafeMethodsServlet. They are not registered using @scr annotations, but evaluated directly inside the content tree. To catch the POST before the SlingPostServlet, I can use a subclass of the page, so the structure would look like this: /apps/all/pages/mypage.java /apps/all/pages/POST.java I tried this already and it works. But: As I said above, the page includes components using RequestDispatcher.include(req,res). These components don't have the POST.java. Because the SlingHttpServletRequest is still of method POST, the SlingPostServlet catches these includes and none of them actually resolve to the component's servlet. To differ between wanted SlingPostServlet requests and the legacy-POSTs I use a selector in the legacy-POSTs. But the main problem remains: As soon as I dispatch the request beyond the page, I will be caught by SlingPostServlet. It would be ideally to have something like SlingRequestDispatcher.includeIgnoreMethod(req,res) or so ;-) Some things I quickly tried but didn't lead to solutions were: - Extending SlingAllMethodsServlet instead of SlingSafeMethodsServlet in the page - Using SlingHttpServletRequestWrapper with overrided getMethod() to return always GET How can I solve this? Subclassing all of my components with a POST.java too is not really an option... Thanks in advance. Regards, Matthias Wermund Software Engineer --------------------------------------------------------------------- namics ag - ein Unternehmen der PubliGroupe Teufenerstrasse 19 CH-9000 St. Gallen http://www.namics.com http://blog.namics.com mailto: matthias.werm...@namics.com
