[OFBIZ-5131] Review ServletFilter architecture and Servlet vs Session vs Request objects

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Trunk, Upcoming Branch
• Component/s: framework
• Labels: control filters request-objects servlet-context session-context website
• Sprint: Bug Crush Event - 21/2/2015
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Carsten Schinzer
• Created: 08/Feb/13 11:17
• Updated: 11/Jan/22 08:48

Description

Diving deep into the framework and how it has implemented the basic web framework artifacts such as: ControlServlet, Filters etc. there are multiple inconsistencies discovered which require improvement in order to apply (JEE) Standard Techniques to implement features such as the handling of objects required at rendering time (request objects), within a session (Session Objects) or outside (default Servlet Configuration).
Further to this, often code artifacts are found that manipulate the ServletContext during lifetime while this really should not happend as it causes inconsistent behaviour of the Servlet outside the foreseen customizations.