Re: Precisions on solr.xml about cross context forwarding.

2008-12-18 Thread Chris Hostetter
: This bothers me too. I find it really strange that Solr's entry-point : is a servlet filter instead of a servlet. it traces back to the need for it to decide when to handle a request and when to let it pass through (to a later filter, a servlet or a JSP) this is the only way legacy support

Re: Precisions on solr.xml about cross context forwarding.

2008-12-17 Thread Jérôme Etévé
I was thinking, maybe we should write a patch to fix this issue. For instance by making a dispatch servlet (with a "core" parameter or request attribute) that would act the same way as the filter but provide a cross context addressable entry point. What do you think ? Jerome On Wed, Dec 17, 200

Re: Precisions on solr.xml about cross context forwarding.

2008-12-17 Thread Jérôme Etévé
Maybe there's an 'internal query' concept in j2ee that could be a workaround ? I'm not really a j2ee expert .. Jerome. On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Smiley, David W. wrote: > This bothers me too. I find it really strange that Solr's entry-point is a > servlet filter instead of a servlet. > >

Re: Precisions on solr.xml about cross context forwarding.

2008-12-17 Thread Smiley, David W.
This bothers me too. I find it really strange that Solr's entry-point is a servlet filter instead of a servlet. ~ David On 12/17/08 12:07 PM, "Jérôme Etévé" wrote: Hi all, In solr.xml ( /lucene/solr/trunk/src/webapp/web/WEB-INF/web.xml ),it's written that "It is unnecessary, and potentia

Precisions on solr.xml about cross context forwarding.

2008-12-17 Thread Jérôme Etévé
Hi all, In solr.xml ( /lucene/solr/trunk/src/webapp/web/WEB-INF/web.xml ),it's written that "It is unnecessary, and potentially problematic, to have the SolrDispatchFilter configured to also filter on forwards. Do not configure this dispatcher as FORWARD." The problem is that if f