[gatein-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Work started: (GTNPORTAL-1939) PortalContainer#getInstance() must not set the DEFAULT_PORTAL_CONTAINER_NAME "portal"

PortalContainer#getInstance() must not set the DEFAULT_PORTAL_CONTAINER_NAME "portal" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: GTNPORTAL-1939 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/GTNPORTAL-1939 Project: GateIn Portal Issue Type: Quality Risk Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: Common integration Affects Versions: 3.1.0-GA Environment: Doesn't matter Reporter: Michael Hauer Assignee: Minh Hoang TO Labels: portal-s56, review_julien Original Estimate: 2 hours Remaining Estimate: 2 hours The problem we were facing is very curious: While porting our app from jboss 4.3 (plus portal) to jboss 5.1 epp (GateIn), I was facing a problem with the login.jsp which showed the following behaviour: The first request (localhost/myportal/private/myportal) for login (InitiateLoginServlet) displayed the correct login.jsp we have in our extension. But after trying to login with invalid credentials I kept beeing redirected to the login.jsp from the default portal. I used at least 3 hours to debug the whole bunch of eXo classes (very hard, facing the fact, that not all sources are shipped with the source zip file). Then I realized the problem: I implemented a custom Authenticator which extends OrganizationAuthenticatorImpl. There I tried to put some Attributes to the current PortalContainer using PortalContainer.getInstance().setAttribute("bla", "bla"). What I didn't know is, that this GETInstance sets the default portal if the current container is null. In general a getter is not intended to modify anything. Even considering situations where this might make sense, I think this could cause lots of trouble. I would expect an exception if there is no current container.