+1 for Turbine style urls
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Jerome BERNARD
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 6:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Advanced URL mapping?
I just looked at the code and can't find anything really helpful in the
ServletDispatcher class :-(
Here is what I would like to do:
public class RewriteServletDispatcher extends ServletDispatcher {
public void service(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse
response) throws ServletException {
// extract the article id to retreive
String pathInfo = request.getPathInfo();
String articleID = pathInfo.substring(1, pathInfo.length());
// alter the original request so that WW handles it
// the request could be now something like
"/showArticle.action?article=<articleID>"
???
}
}
As show above, even though I am able to extract the relevant information
(the article ID), I am not able to tell the ServletDispatcher that
instead of using the action built from the request path I would like to
use my own path (that would be a "regular" WW action name with my
article id as a parameter).
So ServletDispatcher does not seem to offer much compared to a custom
Servlet (I mean in the use case of course :-)).
If ServletDispatcher was "refactored" a little bit so that the main work
would be done in a method independant of the ServletRequest this would
probably help. I am thinking about something like this:
public class ServletDispatcher extends HttpServlet {
public void service(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse
response) throws ServletException {
// extract the relevant information from the HttpServletRequest object
handleRequest(extractPath, response);
}
protected void handleRequest(String requestPath, HttpServletResponse
response) throws ServletException {
}
// other methods omitted for brief
}
This would allow developers to extend ServletDispatcher and still be
able to implement any URL mapping policy they'd like to use.
I would definitely prefer something better than my own servlet with a
"copy&paste" from ServletDispatcher's code.
Any suggestion?
BTW, I think this kind of servlet should be included in WW. This would
allow pretty URL (this is in fact the main purpose I'm trying to reach).
Regards,
J�r�me.
Jason Carreira wrote:
>Yes, implementing your own ServletDispatcher is the best way to do this...
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jerome BERNARD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 10:54 AM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: [OS-webwork] Advanced URL mapping?
>>
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I would like to be able to map some URL to some actions where part of
>>the URL is transformed as a parameter to the action.
>>For example, I would like the URL
>>"http://myhost.com/article/XYZ"; to be
>>rendered as the view
>>of the action "showArticle" with the parameter
>>"articleID" set to "XYZ".
>>
>>I could possibly do such a thing using Apache (and especially
>>mod_rewrite) as a proxy to the web server, but I would like
>>to handle it
>>at the Servlet level.
>>
>>I am wondering what is the best way to do it... Should I extend WW
>>default ServletDispatcher?
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>J�r�me.
>>
>>
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