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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 21:31:59 +0200
From: Marc Portier <mpo@outerthought.org>
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Subject: Re: finding the URL of the current Cocoon application?
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Ralph Goers wrote:
> At 9/6/2004  02:55 AM, you wrote:
> 
>> we've used this trick a number of times:
>>
>> add an action with:
>>
>>   public Map act( Redirector redirector, SourceResolver resolver,
>>     Map objectModel, String source, Parameters parameters)
>>     throws Exception
>>   {
>>     Request request = ObjectModelHelper.getRequest(objectModel);
>>
>>     if (request.getAttribute("mountpoint") == null) {
>>       String mountpoint = "";
>>       String requestURI = NetUtils.decodePath(request.getRequestURI());
>>       String sitemapURI = request.getSitemapURI();
>>       int pos = requestURI.indexOf(sitemapURI);
>>       if (pos != -1)
>>         mountpoint = requestURI.substring(0, pos);
>>       request.setAttribute("mountpoint", mountpoint);
>>       getLogger().debug("mountpoint=" + mountpoint);
>>     } else
>>       getLogger().debug(
>>         "mountpoint=" + request.getAttribute("mountpoint") + " already 
>> set!");
>>
>>     return null;
>>   }
> 
> 
> This is a good technique, but I would change
> 
>     Request request = ObjectModelHelper.getRequest(objectModel);
> 
> to
> 
>     HttpServletRequest request = 
> (HttpServletRequest)objectModel.get(HttpEnvironment.HTTP_REQUEST_OBJECT);
> 
> As Lars pointed out, Cocoon's Request object can sometimes point to an 
> internal pipeline which is usually not what you want.
> 

good remark,

I should have noted that we only put the action in on the public 
pipelines (ie not internal-only)

regards,
-marc=
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