Re: VELTOOLS - App scope items?

[Gabriel Sidler <si...@teamup.ch>]

Tim Colson wrote:

>>I've got one follow-on though... I tried all sorts of attemps 
>>to just grab something from "application" - ex. 
>>$Application.getRealPath() $application.RealPath, etc. 
>>without success. 
>>Should this work?
>>Tim
>>
> No you dimwit.. it shouldn't! getRealPath() doesn't exist, but
> getRealPath(String foo) does. 
> 
> Ugh. I'm putting down the mouse and backing away from the keyboard. ;-)
> 
> ..uh well... I can't help but make one last attempt at saving some of my
> dignity and trying to ask a non-dimwitted question -> 
> 
> How would I disallow an HTML designer from invoking any public method
> they please on that $application variable? (ex.
> $application.removeAttribute("it_would_be_bad_to_remove_me")
> 
> Geez, I hope that is halfway intelligent. ;-)


That sounds like a very reasonable question :-)

Currently, to achieve above you would have to modify class
org.apache.velocity.tools.view.context.ChainedContext.

If hiding request, session or application attributes from the Velocity
context is a common need, we could make this configurable.


Gabe



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> Tim
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