Hi Stokes,
There was a regression in RC5 that is now fixed in RC6. Your current hack
should work again, sorry for the pain :)
Subclassing ServerServlet to manually pass your ServletContext to your
Restlet Application should work fine too. There is a createApplication()
method that you can extend with something like:
@Override
public Application createAppplication() {
Application result = super.createApplication();
((MyApplication)result).setServletContext(getServletContext());
}
Best regards,
Jerome
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Stokes
> Envoyé : mardi 20 mars 2007 15:48
> À : [email protected]
> Objet : Getting the ServletContext (if you really have to) in 1.0RC5
>
> I have an existing web application that uses Spring in
> Tomcat, and I've added a
> REST API to it using Restlets with RC4. I use the Noelios
> ServerServlet as the
> entry point.
>
> But when I create my root Restlet, I need to get at business
> objects that are
> already created in a Spring (web) context. For that reason,
> the Noelios Spring
> extension (SpringContext) doesn't really work for me. I
> can't load my own beans
> from an XML file, because my own Restlets have dependencies
> on other domain
> objects in the Spring world.
>
> What I did to make this work in RC4 was to, in my
> Application.createRoot()
> method, use this one line of evil code:
> WebApplicationContext wac =
> WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(
> ((ServletContextAdapter)getContext()).getServletContext()
> );
>
> That uses Spring's WebApplicationContextUtils to get the
> existing Spring context
> from the ServletContext. To get the Servlet context, I have
> to hack the current
> RestContext by casting it to the ServletContextAdapter that
> it really is.
>
> This is obviously not _right_, so naturally when I tried to
> upgrade to RC5 it
> broke. I think that's because the Context setup by the new
> ServerServlet has
> additional wrapper(s) or something.
>
> So,
> (1) at first glance I didn't even see how to port my hack.
> Is there a hackish
> way to get the ServletContext in RC5?
> (2) Any suggestions for the right way to do this? My first
> inclination would be
> to subclass ServerServlet with something of my own that makes
> the ServletContext
> available.
>
> Sorry for the long post. I thought this might be a common
> use-case for Spring
> users out there, so the answer(s) might benefit many.
>
> Stokes.
