[Seaside] WARegistry

[Philippe Marschall]

2011/5/27 Ramon Leon <ramon.leon at allresnet.com>:
> On 05/27/2011 01:13 AM, Julian Fitzell wrote:
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I'm playing with some ideas at the moment and someone asked whether we
>> shouldn't get rid of WARegistry in the process. Are many people using
>> or subclassing WARegistry? If you are, could you share what you're
>> doing with it?
>
> Never subclassed it directly, but subclass WAApplication plenty which is
> itself a WARegistry subclass.  Usually I just want to get access to the
> request at the main application entry point before a particular session is
> invoked, a good example would be for rate limiting request using memcached
> or handling a response not meant for a session like a server heartbeat check
> from a load balancer or something.  Maybe responding with a generated
> sitemap as well bypassing all the session machinery.

Have you considered using request filters for this?

Cheers
Philippe