[Registry-dev] Needing a context for Registry

[Paul Fremantle]

I guess we should discuss this when we are all there.

Paul

Chathura C. Ekanayake wrote:
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> AuthorizingRealm for each user is stored in  the user's SecureRegistry 
> instance. But we also need access to the DefaultRealm, which is used to 
> create
> SecureRegistry instances (AuthorizingRealms are created inside the 
> SecureRegistry constructor).
> 
> We are also keeping a SecureRegistry instance created using the "system" 
> user for performing background tasks (adding initial users, roles, 
> creating queries for advance search operations, etc.).
> 
> Therefore, we need to access those three classes from many places of the 
> code. Keeping them as three servlet context properties is also an 
> option. But then we have to pass servlet context (or the request) object 
> to all places that need to access them. I think there are some parts in 
> APP impl, where the servlet context is not available.
> 
> So I think that having a RegistryContext as a system property would 
> solve these problems.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chathura
> 
> Paul Fremantle wrote:
>> Can you explain why we are storing these in the system.properties?
>>
>> I thought the realm was stored in the secureRegistry instance. I would 
>> have thought that the Registry instance was stored in the Servlet 
>> instance.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> Deepal Jayasinghe wrote:
>>> At the beginning  we had to throw away the RegistryContext (runtime
>>> object of the registry) since we did not find real  use of having that.
>>> But now we are storing three separate properties in System.properties so
>>> how about introduce a new class to keep all of them and store only that
>>> in the System.property (In the future we may have some more). We are
>>> storing following in the servlet and system.properties
>>>
>>>  - Registry instance
>>>  - systemRegistry
>>>  - RegistryRealm
>>>
>>> Thoughts ...
>>>
>>> -Deepal
>>>
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