Document standard use cases with J2EE filters
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Key: VELTOOLS-94
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELTOOLS-94
Project: Velocity Tools
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Documentation
Affects Versions: 2.0
Environment: all
Reporter: Claude Brisson
Priority: Minor
(yet another docs reminder...)
There are some use cases concerning J2EE filters that I'd like to
address/document before releasing 2.0 final:
1. sharing the VelocityView with filters - made very easy in 2.x, using:
view = (VelocityView)servletContext.getAttribute(VelocityView.class.getName())
but the loat-a-startup flag must be set on the servlets for the view to be
initialized at the time the filter is called.
[BTW, the VelocityView(ServletContext) exists but is not yet fully coded - init
is not yet called. We should either comment it for now or refactor
VV.init/configure to work either with a ServletConfig or ServletContext.
Personally I don't need it at all.]
2. having a filter add objects in the context: very easy, objects should be put
in targeted scopes using request/session/application attributes.
3. having a filter add a tools property (that will be added to newly created
request/session tools using bean setters or configure): I'm not really sure
about this one. With the current codebase, it is necessary to subclass both the
VV and the ToolboxFactory to circumvent protected accesses to be able to do
sthing like this:
VV.getToolboxFactory().putProperties(scope,props)
I'd vote for having those two methods made public.
[BTW, subclassing of the VV also requires for now the subclassing of the VVS...
maybe ServletUtils.getVelocityView could check a configuration property like
"velocity.tools.view.class=" containing the classname of the VelocityView
subclass to be used]
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