On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org> wrote: > <snip> > > Folks > > Take it for what it is worth to you. > > In the HttpClient / HttpComponents land we have to deal with lots of > various HTTP protocol violations (or shall I say imperfections). There > has always been a lot of requests from users to incorporate workarounds > for their immediate problems into the stock version of HttpClient. The > only feasible approach that worked for us was to provide a plug-in > mechanism for components that might require different degree of > tolerance to a particular type of HTTP messages and to let the users > provide custom implementations that suited their specific application > needs. > > Oleg
I like that idea.. What mechanism do you use to inject the plug-ins? System properties or something more sophisticated? With Mime4j we have AbstractEntity.newBodyDescriptor() which is responsible for creating a MutableBodyDescriptor.. Maybe this could be the place where a custom body descriptor could be injected. DefaultBodyDescriptor could do some of the parsing in protected methods to allow a subclass to overwrite them.. There may be better solutions of course.. Markus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org
