> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: November 17, 2000 12:30 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Are ActionMapping's immutable ?
>
> Matthias Kerkhoff wrote:
>
> > Is an ActionMapping, once registered in ActionMappings, assumed to
> > be constant ? Especially, is it ok (or isn't it?), if getUnknown()
> > returns different values over the lifetime of an ActionMapping
> > instance ?
> > Matthias mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> An individual ActionMapping is *not* assumed to return the
> same values every
> time. The ActionMappings collection itself is the cache, so
> the mapping
> elements are queried any time their value is needed.
>
> The same thing goes for the ActionMappings object itself --
> the value returned
> by getUnknown() can change dynamically if you wish to vary
> the choice of
> destination action.
>
> Unfortunately, however, you do not have much context on which
> to base that
> decision, since getUnknown() takes no arguments. Would it be
> useful to pass in
> the request currently being processed?
>
> Craig
I think so. I've actually had the case where I've wanted one mapping to
return variable results...
