Surjan,
I have a couple of uses for this, but I'll need to modify it slightly. I actually need access before and after the request. Before the request I need to do audit logging and capture the start time. After the request I want to update our JMX statistics. Currently I have to do all this with a servlet filter, but I would prefer to do this with a Cocoon component.
My proposals:
1. Change the name from RequestLogger to RequestMonitor (or something else)
I think the word you are looking for is "Listener", and method names start on "on".
Vadim
as it is not necessarily a Logger and doesn't extend one.
2. Provide two methods; void monitorRequestStart(Environment env)
void monitorRequestEnd(Environment env)
3. Change the code in Cocoon.java to call both methods.
Note that these methods return void instead of boolean, as Cocoon.java could care less what happened inside these calls. Also, the calls should be wrapped in try/catch blocks that log and ignore any errors in these methods since, again, Cocoon.java doesn't care.
I'll be happy to provide a patch to do all this.
Ralph
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