Hi,

I'm exploring the possibility to add interceptors to deal with data binding transformations. It seems that PolicyBuilder is one place that interceptors can be added to the invocation chain. Can other builders (such as component builders and binding builders) contribute interceptors as well? I read the code briefly and found out the wires are not connected when the builders are invoked.

Thanks,
Raymond

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Marino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <tuscany-dev@ws.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: adding an interceptor


Hi Matthew,

Sorry for the delay in answer, I've been swamped at work. This would be great if you could jump in. Generally we have a pattern of using a registry for various extensions (e.g. loaders, builders) that handle a particular task in the runtime. An extension would be contributed as a system service (implementation.system), and as it was initialized, would register itself with the registry (the extension gains a pointer to the registry by declaring an "autowire" to it - you may not be familiar with this mechanism so I'm happy to explain if so). The registry would then dispatch to the correct extension based on some key. For example, with the SCDL loaders, the loader registry uses the XML element name.

I was thinking the policy registry would function the same way. There would be a registry that would track all of the policy extension points, source and target policy "builders". These extension points would be called to decorate either an inbound or outbound wire with interceptors or handlers. We may also want to have the concept of phases to help with ordering as well as a way for an extension developer to plug in a class that can order interceptors/handlers after all have been contributed to a wire.

Currently, there is a very primitive cut at the policy registry (PolicyBuilderRegistryImpl) and policy builders (SourcePolicyBuilder and TargetPolicyBuilder). As a start, perhaps you could start looking at the current registry implementation and seeing what parts need refactoring? I believe the API needs some work. For example, related to the following methods on PolicyBuilderRegistry:

void buildSource(ReferenceDefinition referenceDefinition, OutboundWire wire) throws BuilderException;

void buildTarget(ServiceDefinition serviceDefinition, InboundWire wire) throws BuilderException;

we currently use a Java class and java.lang.Method to represent the service interface and a service operation respectively. We need a generic way to represent Services and associated metadata such as asynchronicity and policy. There's an ongoing thread on that so we should pick up the details there, I just wanted to call your attention to it.

I imagine as you start to look at this, you will have questions on how invocations flow, the relationship between inbound and outbound chains, and how interceptors and handlers work. Can you start to have a look at the registry and post questions as they arise?

Thanks,
Jim



On Aug 7, 2006, at 6:23 AM, Matthew Sykes wrote:

Jim,

I'd be interested in contributing to this but I'm not sure I know exactly where to begin. If you're willing to spend a bit of time on the Q&A necessary to describe the intended flow through the bindings, wires invocation handlers, and policy handlers (using some of Jeremy's presentation as a starting point), I'm in.

Thanks.

Jim Marino wrote:
Greg,
We don't have this finished yet but it would be a nice project for someone to work on, particularly since it would involve figuring out how we are going to support SCA policy. If you or someone else is interested in tackling this (or part of it) let me know and I'll help out.
Jim
On Aug 4, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Greg Dritschler wrote:
I am trying to understand how to add an interceptor to an invocation chain.
It looks like at one point this was accomplished by a implementing a
TargetPolicyBuilder and registering it with the  PolicyBuilderRegistry.
However in the current code base it looks to me like the
PolicyBuilderRegistry is no longer instantiated. Is this broken or has
this been replaced by some other mechanism?

Greg Dritschler


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