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Keith Godwin Chapman commented on AXIS2-3710:
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The reason is our servlet extends AxisServlet but does not call super.init(),
cause we wanna do some specific stuff. Hence the init method in HTTPServlet
does not get called. This causes a nullPointer to occur when
getServletContext() is done cause the servlet config is not set and is null.
> fixes for backward compatibility
> ---------------------------------
>
> Key: AXIS2-3710
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-3710
> Project: Axis 2.0 (Axis2)
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: kernel
> Affects Versions: 1.4
> Environment: Any
> Reporter: Saminda Wishwajith Abeyruwan
> Assignee: Davanum Srinivas
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 1.4
>
> Attachments: axisservlet.patch
>
>
> Hi,
> Is there a particular reason to add the line.
> msgContext.setProperty(HTTPCon
> stants.MC_HTTP_SERVLETCONTEXT, getServletContext());
> You will be able to access the context from http servlet request object.
> Beside the prior added line will break some of the existing production code.
> getServletContext() will work properly, IFF the user's servlet inherit the
> init method or if over-rides, it should called the parent init method.
> In AxisServlet, yes it dose over-rides the init method and calls the parent
> init.
> But those of us who have extended AxisServlet to work with, where over-rides
> the init method to intialize the AxisConfiguration the way our production
> system wants does not call the parents (AxisServlet) init method.
> ex:
> public class MyServlet extends AxisServlet {
> ...
> public void init(ServletConfig config) {
> // my way of initializing axisconfiguration and listeners rather using
> parent
> // init, but inheriting parents do* from AxisServlet.
> }
> }
> We used AxisServlet as show above for quite a long time.
> I'm afraid the prior line of code has broken the backward compatibility of
> re-using AxisServlet in production environments.
> Thus, the correct way is to obtain the servlet context from request, rather
> setting the property.
> Thus, I would humbly ask to revert the commit to preserve backward
> compatibility.
> Thank you!
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