[undertow-dev] Resource Handling Revisited

Bill O'Neil bill at dartalley.com
Mon Jan 2 21:59:40 EST 2017


You should be able to handle all of your use cases by composing handlers
together. Create a new handler that handles security or the database logic
then delegates to an internal resource handler with the appropriate path.

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 9:50 PM, Hicks, Matt <matt at matthicks.com> wrote:

> The problem with ResourceHandler is it doesn't easily support more complex
> scenarios.  A few examples: security on resources, URLs that must find a
> resource path from the database, conditional resources (deliver resource A
> if the IP is x.x.x.x and resource B otherwise), etc.
>
> Offering a more granular control to allow delivery of individual resources
> without the need of a ResourceHandler will drastically improve the
> flexibility of Undertow.
>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:46 PM Stuart Douglas <sdouglas at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> I would be ok with that, however why can't you just use the
>> ResourceHandler? PathResourceManager will use transferFrom if the file
>> is larger than a configured minimum (the transferMinSize parameter in
>> the constructor).
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 1:52 AM, Hicks, Matt <matt at matthicks.com> wrote:
>> > Previously I've asked about streaming a single file back to the client
>> and
>> > got some good insight as to how to accomplish this with `transferFrom`,
>> but
>> > this misses out on all the extra features like resuming transfers,
>> cached
>> > content, etc.  It would be very nice Undertow offered a static utility
>> > method to serve up File, Path, and URL providing all of this
>> functionality
>> > that is currently contained in ResourceHandler
>> > (https://github.com/undertow-io/undertow/blob/master/core/
>> src/main/java/io/undertow/server/handlers/resource/
>> ResourceHandler.java#L155).
>> >
>> > I don't think it would be difficult to extract all of that out of the
>> > private method and simply have ResourceHandler call the static method.
>> > Stuart, what do you think?
>> >
>> > I'd even be willing to do the leg-work if you'd be willing to accept a
>> PR
>> > for it.
>> >
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