PlutoContainer doAdmin

[Carsten Ziegeler <cz...@apache.org>]

Hi,

I'm wondering what the use of the doAdmin method in the PlutoContainer
is? At least in Pluto it's never called.

Carsten
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Carsten Ziegeler
cziegeler@apache.org

Re: PlutoContainer doAdmin

[Ate Douma <at...@douma.nu>]

Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
> Eric Dalquist wrote:
>> We use it in uPortal to perform administrative tasks on the portlet's
>> session. Such as invalidating it on logout or clearing specific
>> attributes if the portlets throws an error and needs to be 'reset' by
>> the user. I think we may have a few other uses where we need to be able
>> to run uPortal provided code within the portlet's ServletContext without
>> actually invoking a method on the portlet.
>>
> Thanks Eric, ok so I guess we should leave this method in :)
FWIW, there are also additional "administrative" features in the driver api like AdministrativeRequestListener etc. which aren't used by the 
container itself either.
It would be possible to provide an AdministrativePortletContainer interface extending the PortletContainer interface in the driver api which 
then would add this doAdmin method, and a corresponding AdministrativePortletContainerImpl implementing this to even further "clean" the 
container api and implementation.
But I'm fine with keeping the doAdmin, although Jetspeed currenly simply ignores this API. Maybe we'll find a usage for it in the future and 
then having it already provided could be handy then ;)

Ate

> 
> Carsten

Re: PlutoContainer doAdmin

[Eric Dalquist <er...@doit.wisc.edu>]

It would be much appreciated :)

Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
> Eric Dalquist wrote:
>   
>> We use it in uPortal to perform administrative tasks on the portlet's
>> session. Such as invalidating it on logout or clearing specific
>> attributes if the portlets throws an error and needs to be 'reset' by
>> the user. I think we may have a few other uses where we need to be able
>> to run uPortal provided code within the portlet's ServletContext without
>> actually invoking a method on the portlet.
>>
>>     
> Thanks Eric, ok so I guess we should leave this method in :)
>
> Carsten
>   

Re: PlutoContainer doAdmin

[Carsten Ziegeler <cz...@apache.org>]

Eric Dalquist wrote:
> We use it in uPortal to perform administrative tasks on the portlet's
> session. Such as invalidating it on logout or clearing specific
> attributes if the portlets throws an error and needs to be 'reset' by
> the user. I think we may have a few other uses where we need to be able
> to run uPortal provided code within the portlet's ServletContext without
> actually invoking a method on the portlet.
> 
Thanks Eric, ok so I guess we should leave this method in :)

Carsten
-- 
Carsten Ziegeler
cziegeler@apache.org

Re: PlutoContainer doAdmin

[Eric Dalquist <er...@doit.wisc.edu>]

We use it in uPortal to perform administrative tasks on the portlet's 
session. Such as invalidating it on logout or clearing specific 
attributes if the portlets throws an error and needs to be 'reset' by 
the user. I think we may have a few other uses where we need to be able 
to run uPortal provided code within the portlet's ServletContext without 
actually invoking a method on the portlet.

-Eric

Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering what the use of the doAdmin method in the PlutoContainer
> is? At least in Pluto it's never called.
>
> Carsten
>