Hi all, I'd like to have a method on the SlingHttpServletRequest that externalizes URLs, ie. just as map() in the resource resolver it converts an internal resource path into a fully valid URL for access from the outside:
relative: /my/sub/path => /contextpath/my/sub/path absolute: /my/sub/path => http://server.com/contextpath/my/sub/path For URLs relative to the current request, this is already possible by using one of the resource resolver map() methods: slingRequest.getResourceResolver().map(slingRequest, "/my/path")) ...which is a bit clunky for placing it into JSPs. For absolute URLs, that must include a host/port, using map() is not enough. If no host -> path mapping is configured (eg. myserver.80/ -> / in /etc/map), you'd typically like to use the current request as the default, which isn't done by any of the map() methods. Also, if a hostname is configured and you use the map(request, path), because that is required for adding the context path, it will _strip_ it from the map call if the current request goes to that hostname, which is probably the normal case (this is correct, as the map(request, path) call is aimed at relative URLs). Therefore additional methods on the request object make sense, I think. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-1629 for a patch. WDYT? Regards, Alex -- Alexander Klimetschek alexander.klimetsc...@day.com
