Felix Meschberger wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Currently all javax.servlet.Filter services registered in the OSGi
> framework is picked up by Sling (the SlingMainServlet) an added to the
> Sling filter chains.
> 
> This is problematic in general and in special with respect to the
> planned addition of white board support for real servlet container
> filters (SLING-1223 [1]).
> 
> Incidentally we are also considering an extension to the Sling filter
> support adding more filter scope values: SLING-1213 [2].
> 
> So I would like to propose the following:
> 
>   * Sling is modified to only pick Filter services which have a
>     specific registration property set (say filter.scope or rather
>     a new property such as sling.filter.scope or
>     sling.filter.dispatcher). Likewise the current filter.order
>     property should be dropped and be replaced by the standard
>     OSGi service.ranking property.
Sounds good, I would go with sling.* for the property names to avoid
possible conflicts with other stuff. And using the service ranking
instead of the order property makes sense.

>   * The intended whiteboard support (SLING-1223) also is based on
>     prerequisite properties (see [3]) and will only pick up filters
>     with the correct properties set.
> 
>   * For backwards compatibility Sling still picks up all filters
>     but ignores those which contain any of the known white board
>     filter properties.
Yepp, this is the problematim part as we somehow have to maintain
compatibilty. We should log a big warning so people start changing their
stuff to the new properties.

> 
> WDYT ?
+1

Carsten
> 
> Regards
> Felix
> 
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-1223
> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-1213
> [3]
> http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-http-service.html#ApacheFelixHttpService-UsingtheWhiteboard
> 


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