org.apache.sling.engine

Interface SlingRequestProcessor

@ProviderType
public interface SlingRequestProcessor

The SlingRequestProcessor interface defines the service which may be called to handle HTTP requests.

This interface is implemented by this bundle and is not intended to be implemented by bundles other than this.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static String	NAME The name of the SlingRequestProcessor service.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	processRequest(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response, ResourceResolver resourceResolver) Process an HTTP request through the Sling request processing engine.

Field Detail

NAME

static final String NAME

The name of the SlingRequestProcessor service.

Method Detail

processRequest

void processRequest(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
                    javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response,
                    ResourceResolver resourceResolver)
             throws javax.servlet.ServletException,
                    IOException

Process an HTTP request through the Sling request processing engine.

This method does not close the provided resource resolver!

The org.apache.sling.servlet-helpers module provides synthetic request/response classes which can be useful when using this service.

Parameters:

request - Usually a "synthetic" request, i.e. not supplied by servlet container

response - Usually a "synthetic" response, i.e. not supplied by servlet container

resourceResolver - The ResourceResolver used for the Sling request processing.

Throws:

NullPointerException - if either of the parameters is null

IOException - if an error occurrs reading from the request input or writing the response

javax.servlet.ServletException - if another servlet related problem occurrs