Hi, On 09.04.2010 23:09, Luca Masini wrote: > Hi, I'm asking why the RequestDispatcherOptions is designed not to allow the > changing of the extension.
The idea was, that the extension conveys intents of the requester regarding the content type of the response. We thought that we should not allow for overwriting this intent while handling the request. (yet using the request dispatcher in creative ways, we cannot prevent this from happening) > > I also saw in the merge method of the SlingRequestPathInfo that the > extension is taken from the instance variable and I can't merge with a > changing extension. > > What would be wrong in a request that change extension ?? > We also found that it might be helpful to have this extension on one or two occasions, but never actually did it. Might be a good point in time to reconsider ... Regards Felix
