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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:33:38 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: RequestDispatcher with Cocoon
From: "Andy Lewis" <ajl@ascii27.net>
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If I actually get it working, I would certinaly contribute it. Yeah, ugly, but probalby no really
CLEAN way to achieve it.
At any rate, many thanks for the guidance - I'll go with a reader. I suspected that using the
wrong componenet would cause me grief....
> Vadim Gritsenko wrote:
>
>> Andy Lewis wrote:
>>
>>> I have a need to, under specific circumstances, do a
>>> RequestDispatcher.forward out of Cocoon. I've
>>> not found any support for this in Cocoon. Alternatives won't work  since I need to do this
>>> while
>>> preserving request attributes. I would expect to be able to code this  as an Action without
>>> extreme
>>> difficulty, but I thought I would thorw the idea to the list first  and see if anyone has any
>>> ideas, comments, or suggestions...(something other than "No!  Don't  do it!" :)
>>> Many thanks....
>>>
>>
>> Why do I think that reader is much better place for something like  this (...assuming that
>> it's possible...)?
>
>
> Because forwarding delegates the production of the output to the target  resource. But Cocoon
> expects the sitemap to produce something or an  error is displayed.
>
> So the only place where such forwarding is possible is in a Cocoon  component that feeds the
> output with abitrary binary data, and Cocoon  names it a reader ;-)
>
> Andy, would you like to contribute a "ForwardReader", how ugly and  servlet-tied as it may be ?
>
> Sylvain
>
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