Thanks Noel. Advice gratefully received.

Martin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "James Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 2:50 PM
Subject: RE: ClassCastException / getAttribute


> Martin,
>
> The ability to pass information related to a match from one matcher to
> another will be part of the Mailet API v3, by using Mail attributes.  What
> you've done is globally assocated a string value with an e-mail address as
> the key.  Ripe for conflict and collision on many fronts.  No guarantee
that
> other code won't use the same key for a different purpose, not association
> of the value with a particular message, no contract for when the data gets
> cleaned up.
>
> If you must do this today, then I would create a unique, well-known, key
for
> your concept and use that in your matchers.  Then use that key to to store
> an object that will manage the data associations.  But without mail
> attributes, you don't really have the infrastructure to do this cleanly.
>
> --- Noel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Woolley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 2:19
> To: 'James Users List'
> Subject: RE: ClassCastException / getAttribute
>
>
> Hi
>
> I set the attribute in another matcher that executed prior to this one.
It's
> in a different processor. Does this matter? Yes, I did mean to do things
> this way but that doesn't mean it makes sense! What I want to be able to
do
> is pass some indication of the result of processing one matcher to a
matcher
> later in the chain. I figured that I could do this by setting attributes
in
> the context. Is there an alternative? The "per recipient" bit is because
> there can be a variety of reasons why a recipient be matched in the first
> matcher, and I want to pass that information forward. Advise on best
> practice most certainly invited.
>
> And I'll look at your coding suggestion as well of course.
>
> Thanks Noel
>
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 16 January 2003 21:38
> To: James-User Mailing List
> Subject: RE: ClassCastException / getAttribute
>
>
> Martin,
>
> Being pressed for time, I'm looking at the obvious:
>
>   java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.StringBuffer
>
> I'm wondering if the exception weren't at:
>
>   String reason = (String) r;
>
> so you might try r.toString() instead.
>
> When did you setup those attributes, and do you really mean to have a
global
> attribute in the MailetContext per e-mail address and named by the
address?
> Same question, but did you mean to be calling getInitParameter?
>
> --- Noel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Woolley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 16:03
> To: James Users List (E-mail)
> Subject: ClassCastException / getAttribute
>
>
>
> Hi
>
> I'm playing around with James, getting myself familiar with the way
mailets
> and matchers are written. I ran into a problem today though wherein the
code
> below generated a ClassCastException. Extracts from the mailet.log file
and
> spoolmanager.log file (which includes the exception) follow. The problem
> appears to emanate from the call to MailContext.getAttribute.
>
> Any obvious schoolboy errors in here?
>
> Thanks
>
>     public Collection match(Mail mail) {
>         MailetContext mc = getMailetContext();
>         Object o [] = mail.getRecipients().toArray();
>         ArrayList matchedRecipients = new ArrayList();
>         int l = o.length;
>         for (int i=0;i<l;i++) {
>             MailAddress ma = (MailAddress) o[i];
>             log("Checking reason attribute for recipient:
"+ma.toString());
>             Object r = mc.getAttribute(ma.toString());
>             if (r != null) {
>                 String reason = (String) r;
>                 log("Reason = "+reason);
>                 if (reason.indexOf("NaughtyWords") > -1) {
>                     log("This recipient needs vetting for naughty words");
>                     matchedRecipients.add(ma);
>                 }
>             }
>         }
>         return matchedRecipients;
>     }
>
> mailet.log contains:
> 16/01/03 20:56:30 INFO  James.Mailet: FoundNaughtyWords: Checking reason
> attribute for recipient: rebecca@localhost
> 16/01/03 20:56:30 INFO  James.Mailet: ToRepository: Storing mail
> Mail1042750587968-1 in file://var/mail/error/
>
> spoolmanager.log contains:
> 16/01/03 21:02:01 ERROR spoolmanager: Exception in processor <vetting>
> java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.StringBuffer
> at com.woolleynet.james.matchers.FoundNaughtyWords.match(Unknown Source)
> at
>
org.apache.james.transport.LinearProcessor.service(LinearProcessor.java:319)
> at
>
org.apache.james.transport.JamesSpoolManager.process(JamesSpoolManager.java:
> 385)
> at
>
org.apache.james.transport.JamesSpoolManager.run(JamesSpoolManager.java:315)
> at
>
org.apache.avalon.excalibur.thread.impl.ExecutableRunnable.execute(Executabl
> eRunnable.java:47)
> at
>
org.apache.avalon.excalibur.thread.impl.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:8
> 0)
> 16/01/03 21:02:01 ERROR spoolmanager: An error occurred processing
> Mail1042750919465-1 through vetting
> 16/01/03 21:02:01 ERROR spoolmanager: Result was error
>
>
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