many methods in BlockCallHttpServletRequest not supported yet.

[Rice Yeh <ri...@gmail.com>]

Hi,
  There are many methods not supported in BlockCallHttpServletRequest yet,
like getLocale(). We are converting our project to use cocoon-blocks-fw-impl
but many of our sitemaps use LocaleAction which calls getLocale() in
request.  Just like to know  whether these methods will be implemented soon.
Or we should just hold on  the conversion.

Rice

Re: many methods in BlockCallHttpServletRequest not supported yet.

[Daniel Fagerstrom <da...@nada.kth.se>]

Rice Yeh skrev:
> Hi Daniel,
>   I am sorry for asking such a schedule-related question. Please 
> forget this question.
No problem at all. The blocks fw should be considered early alpha, so I 
just wanted to make clear that there is a risk in depending on it if you 
have a tight schedule.

Nevertheless am I interested in what request methods (and other 
features) that you and others need. It is more motivating for me (and 
others) to work on things that will be used. And I hope to find some 
time to work on the blocks fw soon.

/Daniel

Re: many methods in BlockCallHttpServletRequest not supported yet.

[Rice Yeh <ri...@gmail.com>]

Hi Daniel,
  I am sorry for asking such a schedule-related question. Please forget this
question.

Regards,
Rice

Re: many methods in BlockCallHttpServletRequest not supported yet.

[Daniel Fagerstrom <da...@nada.kth.se>]

Rice Yeh skrev:
> Hi,
>   There are many methods not supported in BlockCallHttpServletRequest 
> yet, like getLocale(). We are converting our project to use 
> cocoon-blocks-fw-impl but many of our sitemaps use LocaleAction which 
> calls getLocale() in request.  Just like to know  whether these methods 
> will be implemented soon. Or we should just hold on  the conversion.

Cocoon is entirely based on volunteer contributions, so it is not like 
we have a time schedule for when a certain feature will be implemented. 
It depends on when someone (you e.g. ;) ) feel like implementing it.

For the lacking methods in BlockCallHttpServletRequest, Alexander and I 
had a discussion about some of them recently 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116412357400001&r=1&w=2. Some of the 
methods should inherit their result from the caller, other should also 
be able to override the result from the caller, still others should have 
result that only depend on the current block call.

So we need to figure out what is the preferred behavior for each method. 
  For getLocale(), it would, AFAICS, be most reasonable to inherit its 
value from the original request from the servlet container. The same 
goes for a number of other methods, so it is time to find some way to 
make the request object of the caller available to the 
BlockCallHttpServletRequest.

What unimplemented methods more than getLocale() do you need?

/Daniel