Could we have a helper method/service here as well? Not just for JSPs but for 
java code as well.

It's a common question that people want to render a request result into a 
string (or simply get the stream; internally a bytearrayoutputstream probably), 
and the answer "yes, you can do that, just build your own dummy 
request/response wrappers and place your own outputstream in there" is a bit 
difficult.

Two recent examples that could make use of that in Sling:
- Bertrand's health check which does script execution: 
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/trunk/contrib/extensions/healthcheck/hc-sling/src/main/java/org/apache/sling/hc/sling/impl/HttpResponse.java
 (see javadoc)
- web resources (from SLING-2805) that allow for compilers to be written as 
sling script engines (ok, that's just an idea)

Cheers,
Alex

On 19.04.2013, at 16:45, Felix Meschberger <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Mike
> 
> I agree, that this would be a nice addition. I don't think this is too
> hard to implement, basically all it takes is wrap the response and
> overwrite the getWriter method to capture the output in a StringBuilder
> which can then be pumped into the variable or StringReader.
> 
> Would you be able to come up with a patch ?
> 
> Regards
> Felix
> 
> On 19.04.13 13:55, "mjkelleher" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Posted a new feature request:
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-2834
>> 
>> Some of the standard EE taglibs support this feature, and would be nice
>> if sling:include did also.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> --mike
> 

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