Has noone else an opinion on this topic?
Carsten
Open Source Group sunShine - b:Integrated
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Carsten Ziegeler, S&N AG, Klingenderstrasse 5, D-33100 Paderborn
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> Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> looking at some problems I am wondering if it is "legal"
> to use the ThreadLocal class.
>
> I see some use cases for it:
>
> Use Case 1:
> Marcus Crafter recently asked if it is possible to
> have the SourceResolver available in components
> which are not SitemapComponents and/or if it is
> possible to have it available at earlier stages
> than the setup() method, e.g. in the configure()
> method.
>
> Use Case 2:
> Logging. The current information logged contains
> only the thread id and time information. If the
> logger (or formatter) has access to the current
> environment or objectModel it could print out
> more information ,e.g. the request uri or the
> ip address etc.
>
> As it is not possible to pass the SourceResolver
> or the objectModel to the components via the
> methods called, there has to be another way.
> (E.g. we can't change the signature of the
> configure() method to include the SourceResolver
> as it is a standardized Avalon interface - which
> is very good).
>
> So I though of creating a defined ThreadLocal
> variable which contains either the environment
> or the objectModel or the SourceResolver or
> whatever needed.
>
> We could either make this variable available
> via a static variable of some class, e.g.
> the Cocoon class or we could hide the
> existence of the ThreadLocal instance and
> create an avalon component which accesses
> this ThreadLocal variable, so the avalon
> component must be looked up and offers
> some get methods to retrieve the
> information.
>
> What are your thoughts? Comments? Ideas?
>
>
> Carsten
>
> Open Source Group sunShine - b:Integrated
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