I'm looking at using Guice with Restlets in a system that uses a small number of servlets (one per application) as entry points. Guice has a servlet filter that will perform dependency injection on servlets at init time, but it requires that the injected servlets descend from an abstract class InjectibleHttpServlet.
I'd like to obtain the Restlet Application or Context objects in the ServetServlet subclasses in order to pass them on throughout my application code, so that I can use Guice Modules to manage objects implementing Resources, so that they can be instantiated with their Applications and Contexts bound. It's easy enough to reparent a copy of com.noelios.restlet.ext.servlet.ServerServlet to descend from com.google.inject.servlet.InjectedHttpServlet to obtain the init behavior, but I'm having some difficulty putting the Context and Application into Guice, since ServerServlet creates them itself. I have seen some of the other Restlet/Guice work that's gone on, but it seems that it avoids this area, perhaps on purpose, or perhaps because the developers were not using ServerServlet, but instead a pure Restlet application. I would like to know if anybody has re-written ServerServlet to use Guice injection and Providers to abstract out the creation and binding of Application and Context. If so (or if not and I do it), is there any interest in putting this together with some of the other Guice work for Restlet and contributing it back as an extension? Thank you, Leigh.
