Request header handling in FW/1 v4.0 #411
Description
With the increased focus on REST support coming in FW/1 v4, it could be a good idea for the framework to provide access to request headers. It is true that it is easy to get at request headers via the getHttpRequestData() method. However, I think it would be appropriate for the framework to add a framework specific way for handling headers, since it is highly likely that any REST API is going to need to access request headers. (Just as FW/1 provides easy and framework specific access to FORM and URL scope variables in the rc struct today.)
A couple of possibilities are:
- adding a new
getHeader()method, that controllers can use to access specific headers - passing a headers struct to controller methods as a second argument so that controller methods would have the form
controllermethod( rc, headers ) {}
I would be interested in any feedback or thoughts that people have.