Le mer. 5 mai 2021 à 11:19, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> a écrit :

> On 05/05/2021 09:58, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
> > On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 3:17 PM Jean-Louis MONTEIRO <jeano...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Still working on getting TomEE certified for Jakarta EE 9.1
> >> We are using latest Tomcat 10.x and we indeed see now only one failure
> as
> >> described here
> >>
> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TOMCAT/Servlet+TCK+5.0
> >>
> >> I understand this is not really a critical thing to be certified for
> >> Tomcat.
> >> And I also understand this is not something the community agrees on.
> >>
> >> But I'd like, for the sake of getting TomEE certified, to pass this test
> >> and therefore I'm looking at a way to patch it on our side.
> >>
> >> Would you be able to help in giving pointers on how to do it?
> >>
> >> Any help is appreciated at this point.
> >>
> >
> > We already talked about this (bad) "feature" quite a bit in the past.
> > Unless there's a big surprise:
> > - This needs intrusive and annoying change to the deployer
> > - The benefit to actual users seems to be zero
> > - The feature is optional
> > As a result, I doubt Mark will change his mind [I am not enthusiastic
> > either] and I still don't understand how it is a mandatory TCK test.
>
> +1 allowing this feature opens up a huge mess of deployment edge cases
> that the Tomcat deployment process was designed very carefully to avoid.
>
> > So ... I think you can come up with a hack instead: a Catalina listener
> > could be added to the Context, then it could configure the rewrite valve
> to
> > do the url mapping. It should be enough to make this work.
>
> Another option would be to challenge the TCK test on the grounds the
> spec allows containers to override any default-context-path setting but
> the TCK assumes this isn't going to happen (in Tomcat it will always
> happen).
>

+1 to challenge this test, if there is a consensus it is wrong no point to
keep it year after year IMHO.


>
> Mark
>
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