XRebelHub Wicket Endpoints

Better names for XRebelHub endpoints for Apache Wicket pages.

By default XRebel Hub uses the request URIs to name endpoints. For Wicket however this rarely produces useful results. Only is case of bookmarkable URLs the resulting URI will be usable. The generated URIs loose all information about which wicket pages or actions are executed.

Implementation

Via Wicket's RequestLogger interface you have proper access to the page and action (request target) which handled the HTTP request.

With the recent addition to the XRebel Hub agent you are able to set names based on request or response headers.

By using a customized RequestLogger instance we inject a special header which contains a better named endpoint for XRebel Hub to use.

This implementation targets Wicket 1.4, but can easily be applied to newer Wicket versions.

Usage

To use this new RequestLogger class you simply need to return it from your custom wicket Application instance.

public class MyWebApplication extends WebApplication {

	// ...
	
	@Override
	protected IRequestLogger newRequestLogger() {
		if (Boolean.getBoolean("xrebelhub")) {
			return new com.mpobjects.labs.wicket.xrebelhub.XrhRequestLogger();
		}
		else {
			return super.newRequestLogger();
		}
	}
} 

This would only use the specialized request logger when the system property xrebelhub is set to true.

You also need to create a customer profiling configuration for the agent to use the special HTTP header as endpoint name.

<profilingConfig>
	<entryPoint pattern="* /appname/*"  setName="${responseHeader:x-rebelhub-endpoint}"
</profilingConfig>

Settings

License

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