Re: Problem with initializing a servlet.

[sergey@total-knowledge.com]

Well, that's not the case. I tried to debug it too.
I put debug messages in servletconfig wich parses engine.xml and found out
that xml was parsed correctly before init() was called.


> .. because configuration file wasn't loaded yet?
>
> 2007/3/30, sergey@total-knowledge.com <sergey@total-knowledge.com>:
>>
>> > You should never be overriding Servlet::init(ServletConfig&)
>> > There is another one - HttpServlet::init() - not the empty parameter
>> > list.
>> > You should override that one (and there is no need to call parent's
>> > init() method -  it's empty.).
>>
>> I tried that initially, but with the same result: getInitParameter()
>> operations returned null.
>> That's why I tried init(ServletConfig&) hoping that it will create
>> config
>> object. Apparently it didn't.
>> Any ideas why getServletConfig().getInitParameter("bla") does not work
>> in
>> init()?
>>
>> >
>> > sergey@total-knowledge.com wrote:
>> >> I need to initialize my servlet using init(ServletConfig& conf).
>> >> I know I have to call GenericServlet' init(conf) in order to do
>> that(btw
>> >> the documentation still has java syntax: super.init(conf)).
>> >> Here is what I do:
>> >>
>> >> void UuServlet::init(ServletConfig& conf)
>> >> {
>> >>   servlet::GenericServlet::init(conf);
>> >>   string strUID = conf.getInitParameter("UID");
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> getInitParameter("UID") returns null, despite of the fact that I have
>> >> this
>> >> parameter defined in my engine.xml:
>> >>
>> >>     <servlet name="UuServlet" dso="./debug/libui/libuu.so">
>> >>         <parameter name="UID" value="sergey"/>
>> >>     </servlet>
>> >>
>> >> What am I doing wrong?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > --
>> > Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
>> > Total Knowledge. CTO
>> > http://www.total-knowledge.com
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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