[XMLRPC-101] Possibility to subclass XmlRpcSunHttpTransport for added functionality

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0rc1
• Component/s: Source
• Assignee: Jochen Wiedmann
• Reporter: Julio Francisco Veronelli
• Created: 31/Jul/06 18:22
• Updated: 28/Nov/08 20:53
• Resolved: 27/Oct/07 20:16

Description

Could it be possible to make the URLConnection in class org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcSunHttpTransport protected instead of private? That is:

protected URLConnection conn;

REASON:
That way is much easier to subclass for added functionality. In particular, i'm subclassing it to set a java.net.Proxy or a java.security.KeyStore used for setting a SSL connection.

In XML-RPC 3.0a1 it was easy to do, all that was needed was to subclass method newConnection(). In 3.0RC1 that method is gone, and overwriting sendRequest(XmlRpcRequest) is not possible, since conn is private.

I tried also extending XmlRpcHttpTransport, but it is not possible, because org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcStreamTransport.RequestWriter is protected and cannot be accessed.

Thanks in advance.