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When to use HttpRequestWrapper?

 
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When would it be appropriate to use a HttpRequestWrapper?
 
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My favorite example is in using a wrapper to trim all of the request parameter values. It's easy for a user to accidently hit the space bar at the end of an entered number. This wrapper saves a lot of frustration!
 
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Hmmm didn't know you could modify parameters.

I'm looking at the API of the HttpRequestWrapper and would use the getParameter() method to access the parameter.

The question I have is how do you modify the parameter values when data has been submitted via querystring or posted.
 
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Just override the getParameter() method like this:
 
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There's a couple other methods that retrieve parameters that need to be covered as well, but that's the jist of it. I also like to hold a lazy map of the parameters in my wrapper so they only get trimmed once (and actually never get trimmed if you never ask for any parameters).
 
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Originally posted by Salvador Cecilio:
Hmmm didn't know you could modify parameters.

I'm looking at the API of the HttpRequestWrapper and would use the getParameter() method to access the parameter.

The question I have is how do you modify the parameter values when data has been submitted via querystring or posted.



As Paul shows, you don't actually change the parameters but by wrapping the request you make your application see the kind of values you want it to see. When the app asks the request for a parameter, it doesn't know that the request is wrapped and giving it a special, new-and-improved version of the original parameter.

Wrapping the request is like gold-plating costume jewelry. You're not changing the original product (only coating it), yet you fool everyone into thinking the product is better than it really is!
 
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Originally posted by Marc Peabody:


As Paul shows, you don't actually change the parameters but by wrapping the request you make your application see the kind of values you want it to see. When the app asks the request for a parameter, it doesn't know that the request is wrapped and giving it a special, new-and-improved version of the original parameter.

Wrapping the request is like gold-plating costume jewelry. You're not changing the original product (only coating it), yet you fool everyone into thinking the product is better than it really is!




Yeah, that makes a lot more sense, and I thought I knew my decorator patterns.
 
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