[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Port Actions to component model

This has been discussed on IRC but I wanted to send out an email before creating a design proposal and JIRA issue. Summary: Actions need to be ported out of the old core into their own components. It is important that the new Action model be in place so that newly added actions do not have to be ported as well. Current Situation: There is an Action interface, an ActionManager, and an XWikiServlet which work but design is not finished. Use cases: 1. When a browser supports gzip compression, the response should be passed through a discrete gzip Action component. However if the requested material is already compressed (images), it should not be gzip'd. 2. If the user is not logged in and the action they are requesting does not alter the database (Registration) the request should be passed to a cache Action. If the cache contains the desired page then it is returned, otherwise it is passed on to the requested action and when returned it is added to the cache. 3. If desired, a filter Action may catch requests depending on user agent, ip address etc. And reroute the request. Banned! I'd love to hear more use cases, I'll post this to the design proposal page after I go for a walk. Caleb James DeLisle