[hunchentoot-devel] developing in hunchentoot

[Edi Weitz]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Vsevolod <vseloved at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe he is referring to the fact, that after redefining the DISPATCHER, the
> running server's dispatch table remains unchanged.

I don't think so.  He said that each time he redefines an easy handler
a new entry is added.

> In the sense, that the
> server continues to use the dispatcher closures, created at the time of the
> server start. At least for me it works this way (in old Hunchentoot): when I
> redefine a dispatcher, I need to modify the dispatch table (or plainly
> restart the server) for the change to take effect.
>
> To clarify, I'd like to add, that I refer to the handler functions as per
> the docs (e.g. html-generation functions). They take no arguments and are
> responsible for forming the reply object. If you redefine them, it has
> immediate effect. Dispatchers are the closures in the dispatch-table, that
> take 1 argument -- request. If you redefine the dispatcher (for example,
> with define-easy-handler, or manually), somehow, it doesn't effect the
> running server's dispatch-table.

That shouldn't be the case with the 1.0.0 version.  See how
list-request-dispatcher works.

Edi.