Wicket as a web service framework

[Chris Davis]

Hi All,I am interested in using wicket as web service framework. We already
use it to serve a web and mobile
web browser application but now we have a need to open up the API for
other types of client and I think it would be great if I can leverage
a lot of the wicket work already done
like the authentication and form validation.

I see from this blog post that others have thought of this and indeed it shows
how to implement a simple web service, however Jonathan's comment below
makes a good point as I will also need to handle POST requests
http://blog.brunoborges.com.br/2008/11/restful-web-services-with-wicket.html

So I am wondering if anyone has taken this further and perhaps we could talk
about how to best approach this strategy or perhaps you think I am
completely mad to even think about using wicket in this way in which case
please do say so.

GZip HTML response

[Chris Davis]

Hi All,

I really need to enable GZip compression for HTML in my app, I see in Jira
that there is a bug fix for this but its not released in the stable build.
In the comments it suggest he following code snippet

class GZipBufferedResponse extends BufferedResponse
{
  public void close()
 {
 String result = toString();
 if (result.length != 0)
 {
   getOutputStream().write(compress(result));
 }
}


but I don't have a clue what to do with it, could anyone point me towards
the correct class where I am supposed to use this?

thanks in advance
CD

SerializableChecker flagging transient member variable

[Chris Davis]

Hi All,
I am finding that the SerializableChecker is throwing an exception of for
the transient variable SoftReference in
CompressedPackageResource.CompressingResourceStream
Is this a mistake on the checkers part or am I possibly doing something
wrong?

cheers
CD

wicket 1.3.3 on Linux

SSL switching

[Chris Davis]

Hello,I have implemented the SSL switching method as described in
http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/how-to-switch-to-ssl-mode.html that rewrites
the URL and does a redirect.
In does work to a point but I have a few questions:

1) when the redirect occurs a new session is started, is this correct or
have I done something wrong?
2) Are cookies carried over from the original request to the new one?

I have tried debugging this but I get lost in the deeper parts of the
request cycle and just cant work out what should be happening.

thanks in advance
Chris D

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