On 25/06/2023 13:50, Romain Manni-Bucau wrote:
Hi all,
Doing some tests I realized two things:
* tomcat still uses File a lot (thinking to default servlet stack)
* tomcat does not uses FileSystem abstraction and previous point would only
makes sense with this addition
What about a (nio) Fileystem/Path based implementation of WebResourceSet?
It would enable to not only rely on local filesystem but also more exotic
ones (in mem for ex).
Was it already discussed/studied?
I don't recall any discussions. There have been a few discussions around
using custom implementations of various WebResouce classes but that has
generally been to customize some specific behaviour.
Would it makes sense in tomcat codebase?
It depends if there is demand for it. My initial reaction is "probably not".
Where I think there probably is room for improvement is some refactoring
to make it easier to use custom implementations for different parts of
the WebResource implementation. Picking a random example, custom JAR
handling to validate signatures.
If there is a demand for extending WebResource, making it easier to have
custom implementations will hopefully give us an insight into what that
demand is. If there was something folks were consistently asking for
then it would make sense to include it in the default Tomcat distribution.
All that said, I do think if there was a demand for this sort of
functionality we would have seen some indication of that on the users
list. But maybe it is chicken/egg situation so I am in favour of making
custom extensions/implementations easier and seeing what happens.
Mark
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
