Hi,
I am running into a problem I need your help with. We are building a RESTful
Spring/Restlet/Acegi based application that uses a custom session-like
mechanism to track user sessions between RESTful calls. The session id is
passed via a POST parameter in every request. We've customized several Acegi
filters to work with this scheme. The contextIntegrationFilter retrieves the
session id from the request and verifies that the session is valid. Inside the
filter we make the following call:
String sessionId = request.getParameter("sessionid");
The problem is that once this call is made, the request input stream is parsed
and by the time the request makes it to the restlet - handle(Request request,
Response response) - the request.getEntityAsForm() returns an empty form (all
the parameters in the request are lost). Is there a way for restlet Request to
extract form parameters after the request had been parsed? If so, how? If not,
what would be an alternative way of extracting sessionId parameter inside the
filter without causing the request to be parsed? I've looked for ways of
making a deep copy of the request object, but this doesn't seem plausable. Any
suggestion will be appreciated!
Thanks a lot!
Michael
