Pierre Delisle wrote:
>
> > Bug report #412 has just been filed.
>
> > Synopsis:
> > public void removeAttribute(String name) does not work properly
> >
> > Description:
> > lt. spec from sun this method is required to remove
> > the attribute from every scope. in class PageContextImpl
> > however this only removes attributes from the page context:
> >
> > public void removeAttribute(String name) {
> > attributes.remove(name);
> > }
> >
>
> This is indeed a bug, and I can go ahead and fix it
> (at least in 3.3/4.0).
> However, before I do so, would someone know why we
> have the following comments/code in PageContextImpl?
>
> In the class comments:
> * The removeAttribute method does not work for request scope. Needs fixing.
>
> public void removeAttribute(String name, int scope) {
> switch (scope) {
> ...
> case REQUEST_SCOPE:
> throw new IllegalArgumentException("cant remove Attributes from request
>scope");
> ...
Most likely these are pre-Servlet 2.2 comments. Prior to Servlet 2.2 there
was no way to remove a request attribute.
Hans
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