Re: Changing the resource to render and the handling servlet in a request

[Radu Cotescu]

Hi Robert,

> On 26 Sep 2019, at 13:08, Robert Munteanu <romb...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> My solution has two steps:
> 
> 1. wrap the original request using a SlingHttpServletRequestWrapper and
> overriding getResource() to return the new resource. Also overriding
> getRequestPathInfo to return an object that points to the new resource
> 
> 2. obtain a reference to the DefaultGetServlet via 
> 
> @Reference(target = 
> "(component.name=org.apache.sling.servlets.get.DefaultGetServlet)")
> private Servlet getServlet;
> 
> (I guess I could use the component pid as a slight improvement).
> 
> and invoke its service() method with the altered request and the same 
> response.
> 

Why can’t you use the RequestDispatcher in the second step instead of directly 
referencing the DefaultGetServlet?

Cheers,
Radu