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package org.sakaiproject.vm;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.sakaiproject.util.ParameterParser;

/**
 * 
 * ComponentServlet does some setup and provides some support for (mostly legacy) Sakai servlets and tools.
 * 
 */
public abstract class ComponentServlet extends HttpServlet
{
	/** This request's parsed parameters */
	protected final static String ATTR_PARAMS = "sakai.wrapper.params";

	/**
	 * Override service, adding the setup for legacy.
	 */
	protected void service(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, java.io.IOException
	{
		// parse the parameters of the request, considering Unicode issues, into a ParameterParser
		ParameterParser parser = new ParameterParser(req);

		// make this available from the req as an attribute
		req.setAttribute(ATTR_PARAMS, parser);

		// Setup.setup(req, resp);
		super.service(req, resp);
	}

	/**
	 * Send a redirect so our parent ends up at the url, via javascript.
	 * 
	 * @param url
	 *        The redirect url
	 */
	protected void sendParentRedirect(HttpServletResponse resp, String url)
	{
		try
		{
			resp.setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8");
			PrintWriter out = resp.getWriter();
			out
					.println("");
			out.println("");
			out.println("");
			out.println("");
			resp.flushBuffer();
		}
		catch (IOException e)
		{
		}
	}

	// set standard no-cache headers
	protected void setNoCacheHeaders(HttpServletResponse resp)
	{
		resp.setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8");
		// some old date
		resp.addHeader("Expires", "Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT");
		// TODO: do we need this? adding a date header is expensive contention for the date formatter, ours or Tomcats.
		// resp.addDateHeader("Last-Modified", System.currentTimeMillis());
		resp.addHeader("Cache-Control", "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
		resp.addHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");
	}
}