[Geoserver-devel] Having the parsed request object in Dispatcher.REQUEST

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Hi,
the Dispatcher.REQUEST thread local has proven to be quite useful in various
integration/custom development scenarios where we needed to get some extra
information about the incoming request (like, for example, accessing to vendor parameters
in a custom store implementation).

So far, so good, but I’m finding myself repeating over and over the same workarounds
to access the parsed request object, that is, create a dispatcher callback for the sole
reason of snatching the parsed request object in the operationDispatched callback,
put it in a thread local, to access is later.

I was wondering, would you mind if we put the Operation, or maybe just the
Object parameters of it, as a new field in Request?

Cheers
Andrea

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On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:03 AM, Andrea Aime
<andrea.aime@anonymised.com>wrote:

Hi,
the Dispatcher.REQUEST thread local has proven to be quite useful in
various
integration/custom development scenarios where we needed to get some extra
information about the incoming request (like, for example, accessing to
vendor parameters
in a custom store implementation).

So far, so good, but I'm finding myself repeating over and over the same
workarounds
to access the parsed request object, that is, create a dispatcher callback
for the sole
reason of snatching the parsed request object in the operationDispatched
callback,
put it in a thread local, to access is later.

I was wondering, would you mind if we put the Operation, or maybe just the
Object parameters of it, as a new field in Request?

No objection here. I don't see any downside to putting the entire

operation there.

Cheers
Andrea

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Meet us at GEO Business 2014! in London! Visit http://goo.gl/fES3aK
for more information.

Ing. Andrea Aime
@geowolf
Technical Lead

GeoSolutions S.A.S.
Via Poggio alle Viti 1187
55054 Massarosa (LU)
Italy
phone: +39 0584 962313
fax: +39 0584 1660272
mob: +39 339 8844549

http://www.geo-solutions.it
http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it

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