[hunchentoot-devel] global dispatch-table

[Edi Weitz]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 12:42:08 -0800, Cyrus Harmon <ch-tbnl at bobobeach.com> wrote:

> What's the rationale behind a global dispatch table? It seems like
> it might be nicer to have a per-server dispatch table. I can't
> imagine that there would be a good reason not have access to the
> server object when accessing *dispatch-table*, although as currently
> structured process-request should probably take an additional
> argument for the server.

The rationale is that it's a leftover from the times when Hunchentoot
was (based on) TBNL and TBNL was a single-server library.  Have you
seen *META-DISPATCHER*?

  http://weitz.de/hunchentoot/#*meta-dispatcher*

Note that you always have access to the server object via the *SERVER*
variable.

Cheers,
Edi.