[opencms-dev] access to CmsObject

[Christian Steinert]

Michael Varshavsky wrote:
> Hernan, thanks for responding!
>
> The part I don't understand is where it would take the CmsObject to begin
> with...
>   
The CmsObject should be a singleton within any given web application. 
There are factory methods to retrieve that instance, but they only work 
from within the web app.

Christian
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Hernán Leoni <leoni.hernan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yes, it is a servlet filter.
>> I tried to contribute, but I never received an answer from the opencms
>> people to commit the change.
>> The filter does the same opencms does at every request, it takes the
>> CmsObject for the current logged in user and put it in the request, so, it
>> could be accessible for a servlet other than the opencms servlet.
>> For example, you could do that with the Spring MVC servlet, then, you will
>> have access to the CmsObject from the Spring MVC servlet
>>
>> The OpenCMS object instance depends on the logged in user, so, you can't
>> have just one instance, you will have potentially one instance per user.
>>
>> Hernan
>>
>>
>> 2009/8/6 mvarshavsky <mvarshavsky at gmail.com>
>>
>>     
>>>
>>> Hernán Leoni wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Thanks Mathias, I'm adding a request filter to obtain the cms object, I
>>>> hope to be able to contribute it to opencms.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Hernan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I'm completely new to OpenCMS coming from a more traditional application
>>> development side of things. Right now I'm leaning towards using Spring so
>>> I'd like to have a reference to CmsObject in appcontext for my controllers
>>> to have access to. When you talk about "request filter", is that a servlet
>>> filter, and if so - what exactly does it do? Does it look like you'll be
>>> able to contribute this like you've hoped?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot!
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