I am using LazyMaps as a mechanism to get lookup functionality into
JSTL/JSP pages and also inside servlet filters. For example, inside a
servlet filter I have a HttpServletRequestWrapper implementation which
includes a method:
public Map getIsUserInRole()
This means I can fool JSTL into doing a dynamic user lookup by using:
${pageContext.request.isUserInRole['admin']}
I ran into an issue that my LazyMap was always caching the result
(this is how it is supposed to work!) but sometimes the back end value
changes. So I created a modified version of LazyMap, which I called
ClearingLazyMap, that never stores any values into the map and always
does a lookup (using transform). Therefore the modified "get" method
now looks like:
public Object get(Object key) {
return factory.transform(key);
}
This seems to work well for me, is it a good idea or am I missing something?
Mark
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"Paradoxically, the more time saving abstractions you are using the
more you actually have to know." - Simon Willison
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