[jira] Commented: (TOMAHAWK-1323) Tomahawk extensions code should not parse web.xml

["Hazem Saleh (JIRA)" <de...@myfaces.apache.org>]

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Hazem Saleh commented on TOMAHAWK-1323:
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Leonardo,
Thanks for these very nice review comments.
I will apply now ;).

> Tomahawk extensions code should not parse web.xml
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TOMAHAWK-1323
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TOMAHAWK-1323
>             Project: MyFaces Tomahawk
>          Issue Type: Task
>            Reporter: Simon Kitching
>            Assignee: Hazem Saleh
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 1.1.7
>
>
> In earlier Tomahawk releases, the ExtensionsFilter class provides a number of features, including resource-serving and file-upload support. It does need some config parameters, and these were simply defined as filter-specific init params.
> However a custom TomahawkFacesContextFactory now allows this functionality to be available without configuring a servlet filter at all. Therefore there needs to be some way for this new code to get the needed init params.
> The current code parses the web.xml and looks for filter-specific init params, but this is complex and not intuitive for users.
> It seems that the most sensible way is simply to use
>   ServletContext.getInitParameter -- for servlet config
>   PortletContext.getInitParameter  -- for portlet config
> This does require some kind of reflection trickery, as having the portlet api in the classpath is optional.
> Note that if a user does configure a filter, then things work as they always did - config params are read from the filter config. Being able to use "extensions" functionality without configuring the filter is a brand new feature, so there is no backwards-compatibility issue with using a different configuration approach.

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