Yes, I can — Probably tomorrow, works ?

Regards
Felix

Am 20.01.2014 um 04:25 schrieb Carsten Ziegeler <cziege...@apache.org>:

> So I think we should really replace the current implemenation with the new
> one.
> 
> @Felix can you do the move please?
> 
> Carsten
> 
> 
> 2014/1/17 Justin Edelson <jus...@justinedelson.com>
> 
>> Hi Carsten,
>> FWIW, what you are describing looks like what I would expect to happen
>> - features are applied at the thread level, so any activity within
>> that thread would have the same features.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Justin
>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Carsten Ziegeler <cziege...@apache.org>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi Felix,
>>> 
>>> thanks for taking this up - as briefly discussed offline I like this new
>>> approach. It's less API and better covers our use cases.
>>> 
>>> The only thing I'm not 100% sure is the evaluation of the features within
>>> the resource resolver. It gets the current client context from the
>> features
>>> service, assuming this is set. For requests, this is the case - so that
>>> problem is solved. For internal resource resolvers this is different. As
>>> long as no request is running, an "empty" client context will be
>> returned,
>>> but within a request the context belonging to the request is returned.
>>> This sounds like the right thing, because if some request invokes a
>>> different (long running) resource resolver, both see the same state (have
>>> the same features enabled) at that point of time. However for the long
>>> running ones this might be unexpected.
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure if this poses are problem, just want to highlight this.
>>> 
>>> Other than that, +1 for moving this to trunk :)
>>> 
>>> Carsten
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2014/1/17 Felix Meschberger <fmesc...@adobe.com>
>>> 
>>>> Hi
>>>> 
>>>> As I repeatedly said, I think the Feature Flags support should be
>>>> implemented without the ResourceAccessGate mechanism because it is not
>> an
>>>> access control thing but a purely operational visibility thing. Also as
>>>> opposed to access control, feature flag enabled can and should be
>>>> controllable by a consumer of the API; for example by passing a request
>>>> parameter on the request.
>>>> 
>>>> Based on the existing code, I have created a prototype in my whiteboard
>> at
>>>> [1]:
>>>> 
>>>> * On a per-resource level feature flags are set as sling:feature
>>>> properties of type String or String[]
>>>> * Flags are checked during resource resolution in the
>>>> ProviderHandler.getReadableResource method
>>>> * Feature services can implement ResourceDecorator such that they can
>>>> decorate a resource in case their feature is enabled.
>>>> 
>>>> I also provided diffs in the feature-flags and resourceresolver projects
>>>> to be able to see, what has been changed.
>>>> 
>>>> WDYT ?
>>>> 
>>>> Regards
>>>> Felix
>>>> 
>>>> [1]
>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/whiteboard/fmeschbe/featureflags
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Carsten Ziegeler
>>> cziege...@apache.org
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Carsten Ziegeler
> cziege...@apache.org

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