Hi all,

Thanks for your feedback. I have created SLING-748 and applied the
changes of my whiteboard into trunk in Rev. 722089

Regards
Felix

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-748

Felix Meschberger schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> After the big reorganization of servlet resolution in April of this year
> and some more experiences with using Sling, I propose the extension of
> our servlet/script resolution process.
> 
> Actually it is a single change only: Consider request selectors for all
> requests. Currently request selectors are only considered for GET or
> HEAD requests and ignored for any other requests.
> 
> Over time use cases arose, which would be easier implementable if we
> would support using selectors to influence servlet/script resolution for
> all methods.
> 
> Example: Say you are building an application providing a configurable
> input form system. The most important configuration would be the action
> upon form submission. Submitted forms are sent back to the resource
> providing the form. The actual action would be encoded as a request
> selector:
> 
> For example we would like to be able to send a form based mail message.
> We would have script "/apps/myapp/form/mail/POST.esp", which handles the
> "myapp/form" resource type and is called using the "mail" selector. The
> form itself together with some nice GUI surroundings etc. would be
> stored in the /content/feedback resource.
> 
> Now updating the /content/feedback resource should be handled by Sling's
> default POST servlet. Thus POSTing to /content/feedback would update the
> content. Submitting the form would POST to /content/feedback.mail.html
> and should thus not store any form input but trigger the mail/POST.esp
> script.
> 
> I have prepared a prototype implementation of this new mechanism in my
> sandbox at [1].
> 
> A nice side effect of this prototype is, that it is much simpler codewise.
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> Regards
> Felix
> 
> [1]
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/sling/whiteboard/fmeschbe/servlet_resolver
> 

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