Hi, very new to Wicket and this list... so I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if the following is possible and approx. how-to?
Overview: we have a wicket page that generates some html+javascript etc. We want to render this page from within the application (into a String) and send it to some other web service (such as Facebook). We currently use httpclient to make a http request back to our server and take the response and munge it. The overhead of the extra request is an unsatisfactory load on our servers. Is there a way to make to mimic an 'internal' servlet/web request and take that response (or at least the rendering of the Page) but do not affect the state of the current (external) http request? We tried using MockServlet with the WicketFilter but when the intenral request was finished it seemed to alter the state of the original request (such that the session went away and the response was invalid - I think the original response had been generated from the contents of the mock request/response). Even if this could be fixed...theres more: An additional constraint is to call this 'internal request' from anywhere in the code and not necessarily within a http request (i.e., from a Quartz thread). So, we may not have any WicketApplication ...If it is the case that we can only gert our hands on the WicketApplication from a thread that is part of a http request, then the quartz thread willnot have acces to WicketApplication (I am unsure about this). Looking around in the docs, I came across the RequestCycle and wondering if thats how I can do this? Any pointer for this would be appreciated - it would be a shame not to be able to use Wicket for this internal rendering. Mike
