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Nils-Helge Garli reassigned WW-2101:
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Assignee: Nils-Helge Garli
> PreparatorServlet causes request and response objects to be used outside of
> service() method
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> Key: WW-2101
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-2101
> Project: Struts 2
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Portlet Integration
> Reporter: Rickard Öberg
> Assignee: Nils-Helge Garli
> Priority: Critical
>
> The PreparatorServlet stores the request and response object to be used
> later. The servlet spec (SRV.2.3.3.3) states the following:
> "References to the request and response objects should not be given to objects
> executing in other threads as the resulting behavior may be nondeterministic.
> If
> the thread created by the application uses the container-managed objects,
> such as
> the request or response object, those objects must be accessed only within the
> servlet's service life cycle and such thread itself should have a life cycle
> within
> the life cycle of the servlet's service method because accessing those objects
> after the service method ends may cause undeterministic problems."
> So, it is not legal to store those objects as there is no way to know that
> the objects are valid after the service() invocation. And indeed, in our
> portal container implementation those object are immediately invalidated
> after the service() method, causing deterministically problematic situations
> for our users that has chosen Struts 2.
> I understand that the whole idea of using PreparatorServlet is to get a
> reference to ServletRequest and ServletResponse objects, but it is not a
> valid way to do it. It would probably be better if it was possible to simple
> implement wrapper objects that work with the PortletRequest and
> PortletResponse objects instead, in the portlets render() method.
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