Right, can we list some use cases for that stuff here? Carsten
2014-08-19 16:46 GMT+02:00 Justin Edelson <jus...@justinedelson.com>: > Hi Carsten, > While path-based filtering can be done with plain servlet filters, > those don't have access to a ResourceResolver/Session/current > Resource. Which makes them suitable for some use cases, but not > others. > > Regards, > Justin > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Carsten Ziegeler <cziege...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Do we really really need this? At least path based filtering can be done > > with plain servlet filters already. > > > > What are the use cases for this? > > > > Carsten > > > > > > 2014-08-18 13:07 GMT+02:00 Felix Meschberger <fmesc...@adobe.com>: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> I am not sure, whether we should go down that route. > >> > >> A filter ist something which is a cross-cutting concern that the > >> application places on the request processing. As such it is transparent > to > >> the client and it should not be client adressable. Otherwise unexpected > >> behaviour is guaranteed. > >> > >> Regards > >> Felix > >> > >> Am 18.08.2014 um 11:32 schrieb Bertrand Delacretaz < > bdelacre...@apache.org > >> >: > >> > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Felix Meschberger < > fmesc...@adobe.com> > >> wrote: > >> >> ... * filter.resourceType: The Filter is only called if the > resourceType > >> >> of the current Resource (SlingHttpServletRequest.getResource) > >> >> matches any of the given resource types... > >> > > >> > I've long been thinking that we should allow Sling's script/servlet > >> > resolution logic to be used for more than finding request processing > >> > servlets. > >> > > >> > Is it something that would apply here? > >> > > >> > I'm not sure how that could work, but as an initial experiment we > >> > could add a SLING-FILTER selector to the request, resolve that to a > >> > servlet and expect that to be a Filter. And if that works define that > >> > better as presented like this it's quite a hack ;-) > >> > > >> > -Bertrand > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Carsten Ziegeler > > Adobe Research Switzerland > > cziege...@apache.org > -- Carsten Ziegeler Adobe Research Switzerland cziege...@apache.org
