Enhancement request to add <outbound-class-rule> for custom URI localization

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Hi,

We use the following rule to map localized URI's to canonical URI's and it 
works great:
     <class-rule class="org.test.ext.urlrewritefilter.rule.LocalizedToCanonicalUrlRule"
method="matches" />

Essentially the class loads resource bundles for a given locale which provide 
mappings of localized URI segments to canonical mappings... essentially 
reconstructing a canonical URI on every request.

Sure - we could in cases were we have say:
     <%=response.encodeURL("/member/1234") %>

Have instead something like:
     <%=LocalizedUrlToCanonical.map(response.encodeURL("/member/
1234")) %>

But that means we need to explicitly apply localization on every outbound URL 
strewn throughout our HTML / JSP markup and that just doesn't seem right if you 
consider that  response.encodeURL("...")  is processed by UrlRewriteFilter in 
one place with outbound-rules.

What is really needed is a custom class essentially do the reverse for all 
URI's during their encoding but the syntax / functionality is not there:
     <outbound-class-rule
class="org.test.ext.urlrewritefilter.rule.CanonicalToLocalizedUrlRule"
method="matches" />

UrlRewriteFilter should be enhanced to support an <outbound-class-rule>.

--Nikolaos

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ngs...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2010 at 8:45

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hello,

we also would like to have this feature to have more flexibility in creating 
"dynamic" outbound rules.

Thank you in advance!

Kind regards
Sergiy Shyrkov

Original comment by Sergiy.Shyrkov on 1 Mar 2011 at 2:17

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Original comment by p...@tuckey.org on 25 Jun 2012 at 2:17

• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Yes, I completely agree. I'd love to have this too! Without it, we're stuck.

Original comment by vmas...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2015 at 11:08