Date:  Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:07:46 -0500
From:  David Corbin <dcorbin@imperitek.com>
Subject:  [webricken:52] Re: RequestDispatcher (patch)
To:  webricken@notwork.org
Message-Id:  <3C967342.6040204@imperitek.com>
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>If you made changes to some files;
>  cd originalDir
>  diff -upr . ../modifiedDir > ../patch.txt
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I never can remember those flags.

Attached you will find
1) a patch
2) requestdispatcher.rb  (for inclusion in the distribution)
3) Some RubyUnit tests I wrote.  HttpTestCase.rb is a base class for the 
other two.  Do with them as you wish.

The patch does the following:
a) enables RequestDispatcher to support include/forward.  There is 
probably much more than can be done here, like providing support for 
POST on the forward.  I'm also sure that there are better ways to manage 
the response(s), but I think this will cover the 80% case.

b) request attributes - I modeled this on java servlets, but there is 
probably a more ruby-esque way to do this.  It makes forward much more 
useful.

c) I modified the "handler creation".  For handlers that don't need 
instance data, I wanted to be able to instantiate one handler at the 
beginning, and have it reused- this is both an efficiency issue, and an 
issue of I want to "build" the handler using new() and other method 
calls, not by building a giant hash of options.  But you can the old 
style handlers continue to work just fine.

	
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