I would love to have GAE compatibility and won't cry over the loss, I say go for it!
Tauren On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Jeremy Haile <[email protected]> wrote: > I love that idea! Using InetAddress is mostly just an annoyance I think! > > > > Les Hazlewood wrote: > >> I was thinking about Google App Engine and then I remembered this >> thread and wanted to bump it up for discussion. >> >> What does everyone think about changing all references from >> InetAddress to a String? There are 181 places in code this is >> referenced, so its not a trivial change (but not difficult), and >> would break some backwards-compatibility, but it would make us GAE >> compatible (as far as I can tell, this is the only think in the way of >> being GAE compatible). >> >> It is interesting that the ServletRequest API does not use the >> InetAddress class either, but also just uses Strings. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> - Les >> >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Kalle Korhonen >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> Restricted - as in it's not in the the whitelist >>> (http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/jrewhitelist.html). There >>> are only certain classes that are allowed to be loaded. We could make >>> using InetAddress optional. But Google is known to make changes to the >>> whitelist, allowing more classes upon request. >>> >>> Kalle >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Les Hazlewood<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Restricted in what way? Not instantiated? Or the class is not even >>>> allowed to be loaded by the classloader? >>>> >>>> Do you have a stack trace you could send along? >>>> >>>> The InetAddress is not strictly mandatory - it is there as a security >>>> feature to retain the IP from where the end-user initiates their >>>> application interaction so it is available easily to the application, >>>> something valuable to many apps. Something might be able to be done >>>> to make this work in App Engine easily, but I'm not sure what without >>>> knowledge of what is going wrong. Please also feel free to share any >>>> links to resources about how to deal with these restrictions if you >>>> have them. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Les >>>> >>>> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:44 PM, rwilson<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Has anyone successfully integrated shiro with google app engine. >>>>> java.net.InetAddress is a restricted class. >>>>> Any suggestions? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Roy >>>>> -- >>>>> View this message in context: >>>>> http://n2.nabble.com/google-app-engine-tp4049065p4049065.html >>>>> Sent from the Shiro User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>
