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Juan Pablo Santos RodrÃguez resolved JSPWIKI-155. ------------------------------------------------- Resolution: Fixed finished on 2.10.0-svn-55 > Allow customisation of core classes via ClassUtil.getMappedObject > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: JSPWIKI-155 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-155 > Project: JSPWiki > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Core & storage > Affects Versions: 2.6.0 > Reporter: Simon Kitching > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 2.10 > > > The WikiEngine class uses the ClassUtils.getMappedObject method to locate its > critical helper objects, rather than just call "new". > The intentention of this existing code is for people to be able to override > the core implementations with custom ones - with the warning that these core > objects do not have stable public apis, and may change in any release. > Unfortunately because (a) the returned object is cast to a concrete type, and > (b) many of these concrete types are declared "final" this facility is > actually almost useless. > It would be nice for the "final" to be removed from these classes, and from > their member methods so that getMappedObject becomes useful. Alternately, > interfaces could be created for the concrete classes that WikiEngine > currently uses, and all code modified to use the interface instead; the > existing implementations could then remain final. That approach is much more > intrusive though. > Note that in discussions on the email lists it has been suggested that the > "final" qualifier on these classes helps make jspwiki more secure. Personally > I'm not at all convinced that is true though. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159)