Hi Tomek, Thanks for raising these issues. Can you please raise bug reports for each issue found at http://issues.castleproject.org
And if you want to have a go at fixing any of these issues please make sure you follow http://stw.castleproject.org/How-to-submit-a-fix-to-any-Castle-Project.ashx Cheers John On Feb 14, 2:09 am, Tomek Pluskiewicz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Today I've experienced a weird behaviuor from MonoRail while using > elements mention in the topic. > > Imagine the following: > 1. I have a custom extension, which loads menu items from > configuration and then uses UrlHelper to build links for those items. > 2. On one of the pages I use ActionHelper's Render method > 3. The whole thing explodes inside Controller#DisposeFilters() with > NullReferenceExpception > > I spent some time looking into that issue and it seems the problem > lies inside ActionHelper. > 1. ActionHelper creates UrlInfo without supplying AppVirtualDir, which > causes UrlBuilder to fail inside extension > 2. Because extensions fire before other MonoRail steps, the disposing > of Controller happens before it has been contextualized > 3. The above is the reason of NullRefereneException (the null is in > fact Controller#context) > > There are a few weak spots I thnk should be fixed: > 1. Dispose should be invulnerable to NullReferenceException. Extension > failing is a good reason not to assume, that all Controller's > properties will be set. Other solution would be actually > contextualizing *before* anything could go wrong > 2. Another UrlInfo constructor should be used for ActionHelper. That > is the direct reason for my problem. I'm not sure how to supply all > the required parameters correctly though. > 3. Last issue is exception handling inside MonoRail, which hasn't just > once failed me. This is not the first time I've encountered MonoRail > display not the actual exception, which tends to be quite misleading. > It took me quite a lot of digging to figure out what's going on. > > On the other hand thank god MR is open source. I doubt I would be able > to find my solution for a simmilari issue with ASP.NET... ;) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Castle Project Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-users?hl=en.
