Re: [picocontainer-dev] Storing Cached items in HttpSession?

>
>> For a session container (web app), can we store the Cached items in
>> the HttpSession?  I mean as an alternative to storing the whole
>> container in the session ?
>
> Isn't it what we do with the SessionReference impl?

Indeed it is. I was thinking of something like..

         DefaultPicoContainer appScope = new DefaultPicoContainer(new  
Caching());
         DefaultPicoContainer sessionScope = new DefaultPicoContainer 
(new HttpSessionCaching(httpReq.getSession()), appScope);
         DefaultPicoContainer requestScope = new DefaultPicoContainer 
(sessionScope); // no cache at all for actions (etc).

The difference is in the detail.  In the current design, individual  
entries are stored in the session's attributes.....

     public void set(Object item) {
         session.setAttribute(key, item);
     }

     public Object get() {
         return session.getAttribute(key);
     }

Perhaps if this happens at the BehaviorFactory level, a single  
essentially private object could be stored in the session attributes  
that is a hidden map.   Nothing else could retrieve data from it,  
meaning we're doing a bit more of the inversion of IoC.

Thoughts?

- Paul