Andre
André Warnier wrote:
Pid wrote:
The Filter checks the domain name is suitable, /looks up a config object/
and drops it into the request attributes for use on the page.
Ha ! I believe that this is exactly what Jonathan is (or was originally)
looking for.
Where is this "config object", and when and how is it being initialised ?
One place to keep filter configuration information is as an attribute of
the ServletContext. This can be obtained with the
FilterConfig.getServletContext method. The FilterConfig object is a
parameter of the doFilter method of the Filter. (See
http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/)
This works within any one web app.
I'm continuing for myself right now, just to learn how to do this
correctly.
Suppose I do want to do something different in my (shared, common,
whatever) webapp, depending on the "Host:" header of the request.
And suppose this different thing I want to do, is a bit heavy, so I
don't want to do it all at each request, I want to do some of that work
ahead of time, and re-use it for each request afterward.
But the requests come in unpredictable order, all to my same webapp, but
one for "apples.company.com", and the following one for
"bananas.company.com" etc.
And when one comes in for "bananas", I want to retrieve what I had
earlier prepared for "bananas", and not what I had prepared for "lemons".
(In other words, I don't want a fruit salad, I want to enjoy each fruit
separately).
You can write an object which handles the specific processing for each
host and then create a Map as the attribute in the ServletContext using
the host name as the key. At the start of each request in your Filter
you could retrieve the object by using the host name as the key, do
whatever host specific processing you need.
You can add a ContextListener in web.xml will will allow you to do any
servlet startup/shutdown operations.
There are other ways, but the above should work.
Regards
Alan Chaney
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