Request Generator

The request generator uses the current request to produce xml data. It converts some of the information contained in the request to structured xml.

• Name : request
• Class: org.apache.cocoon.generation.RequestGenerator
• Cacheable: no.

<map:generate type="request"/>
<!-- The src attribute is optional -->

The output has the following schema. All elements have the namespace http://apache.org/cocoon/request/2.0

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- The root element is request. The target attribute is the 
 requested uri and the source attribute is the optional 
 source attribute of the sitemap entry for this pipeline. -->
<request target="/cocoon/request" source=""
 xmlns="http://apache.org/cocoon/request/2.0">
 <!-- First the headers: -->
 <requestHeaders>
 <header name="accept-language">de</header>
 <header name="connection">Keep-Alive</header>
 <header name="accept">image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg,
 image/pjpeg, */*</header>
 <header name="host">thehost.serving.cocoon</header>
 <header name="accept-encoding">gzip, deflate</header>
 <header name="user-agent">Browser User Agent</header>
 <header name="referer">http://thehost.serving.cocoon/cocoon/welcome
 </header>
 </requestHeaders>
 <!-- All request parameters: -->
 <requestParameters>
 <!-- Create a parameter element for each parameter -->
 <parameter name="login">
 <!-- Create a value element for each value -->
 <value>test</value>
 </parameter>
 </requestParameters>
 <!-- All request attributes; see below the note on generate-attributes parameter. 
 (This feature is available startign with version 2.1 -->
 <requestAttributes>
 <!-- Create an attribute element for each attribute -->
 <attribute name="errorMessage">
 <!-- Create a value element for the attribute value -->
 <value>I was put here by an earlier action.</value>
 </attribute>
 </requestAttributes>
 <!-- All configuration parameters: -->
 <configurationParameters>
 <!-- Create a parameter element for each parameter specified 
 in the pipeline for this generator-->
 <parameter name="test_sitemap_parameter">the value</parameter>
 </configurationParameters>
</request>

<!-- This will turn on attribute generation on by default -->
<map:generator name="request" src="org.apache.cocoon.generation.RequestGenerator"> 
 <map:parameter name="generate-attributes" value="true"/>
</map:generator>
<!-- or -->
 <!-- This will turn on attribute generation for this invocation only. -->
 <map:match pattern="request">
 <map:generate type="request">
 <map:parameter name="generate-attributes" value="true"/>
 </map:generate>
 </map:match>