I'm trying out Restlets in a Tomcat servlet container. As part of the integration testing, I'm using an existing servlet to establish authentication and resource access tokens, then using the servlet API servletContext.getRequestDispatcher(location).forward(request, response) to forward to a RESTLet connected using com.noelios.restlet.ext.servlet.ServerServlet. My plan was to put the objects necessary for the servlet to access my existing application's resources on the HttpServletRequest inside my servlet with httpServletRequest.setAttribute(key, value) and then retrieve them in the org.restlet.resource.Resource implementation.
I'm not finding a path way that provides the Resource with access to the javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest object, or its Attributes. I'm not using an IOC framework I've read http://restlet.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&&msgNo=397 but it seems not to have happened (at least, there is no Maplet and some of the other classes mentioned aren't there either.) I need a way to pass this information through on a per-request basis (i.e., they aren't servlet init parameters). I've got the following hack but it's clearly wrong. private Object getHttpRequestAttribute(String name) { Request request = getRequest(); com.noelios.restlet.http.HttpRequest hr = (com.noelios.restlet.http.HttpRequest)request; com.noelios.restlet.http.HttpCall hc = hr.getHttpCall(); com.noelios.restlet.ext.servlet.ServletCall sc = (com.noelios.restlet.ext.servlet.ServletCall)hc; HttpServletRequest hsr = sc.getRequest(); return (hsr.getAttribute(name)); } Do you have any suggestions for how to re-cast the problem or how to pass the objects? Thank you, Leigh.
