Re: creating CGI_Impersonator in Webmacro-Spring env

Lane,
         I used $CGI for debugging purpose (dump form parameters)
         but I can easily switch to $Request for the same result.
Hai-Chen

At 12:49 PM 10/1/2004, Lane Sharman wrote:
>cgi impersonator is not a mainline class and could be deprecated to 
>support this initiative.
>
>-Lane
>
>Hai-Chen Tu wrote:
>
>>Sebastian,
>>     I searched all the ContextTools code and found that
>>     CGI_Impersonator is the only class that needs to
>>     access ServletContext and it also assumes that
>>     the broker is a ServletBroker (see code below).
>>
>>            CGI_Impersonator(WebContext wc) {
>>                   requst_ = wc.getRequest();
>>                   // this is not very nice, but I don't see any other
>>                   // possibility to get the servlet context. We should
>>             // provide a method in WebContext to hide this from our users.
>>                   sc_ = ((ServletBroker) 
>> wc.getBroker()).getServletContext();
>>            }
>>
>>     Without this problem, I think we can use a regular WM (i.e., not
>>     initialized with a ServletBroker) as the base for WebMacro engine in 
>> Spring.
>>     And we can use WebContext inside WebMacroView for servlet 
>> application and
>>     regular Context for other usages (e.g., email templates).
>>
>>     Also, I think the main reasons for having 
>> Servlet20Broker/Servlet22Broker are
>>     to add few more places for locating property files, templates, and other
>>     resources and to use ServletContext.log(...) for logging purpose. 
>> They probably
>>     should be replaced by Spring-friendly ones, e.g.,  like the way your 
>> have
>>     implemented.
>>
>>     So the question now is how to address the CGI issue. Comments?
>>Hai-Chen Tu
>>
>>
>>
>>
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