Hi, I’m having some troubles understanding how com.sun.net.HttpExchange attributes (setAttribute and getAttribute methods) work. Looking at the Javadoc, I understood that these attributes were specific to a given HttpExchange instance:
https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/file/a4fb32538898/src/jdk.httpserver/share/classes/com/sun/net/httpserver/HttpExchange.java#l219 <https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/file/a4fb32538898/src/jdk.httpserver/share/classes/com/sun/net/httpserver/HttpExchange.java#l219> Filter modules may store arbitrary objects with HttpExchange instances as an out-of-band communication mechanism. This was also my intuition since these methods are defined on HttpExchange and HttpContext (similar to javax.servlet.ServletRequest#setAttribute and javax.servlet.ServletContext#setAttribute). When using them on a project, I realised that my intuition was wrong though. The source code is very explicit: https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/file/a4fb32538898/src/jdk.httpserver/share/classes/sun/net/httpserver/ExchangeImpl.java#l366 <https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/file/a4fb32538898/src/jdk.httpserver/share/classes/sun/net/httpserver/ExchangeImpl.java#l366> if (attributes == null) { attributes = getHttpContext().getAttributes(); } Is the code wrong or is my understanding of the Javadoc incorrect? If so, shouldn’t it be clarified somehow? Thank you, Julien P.S. this question was also asked on stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59178977/are-com-sun-net-httpserver-httpexchange-attributes-broken <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59178977/are-com-sun-net-httpserver-httpexchange-attributes-broken>
