[xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Create a xwiki-platform-container-deamon module

Hi devs, Whenever we create Threads we need to initialize an Execution Context. Here's the code that we need to write in run(): ExecutionContext context = execution.getContext(); if (context == null) { // Create a clean Execution Context context = new ExecutionContext(); try { executionContextManager.initialize(context); } catch (ExecutionContextException e) { throw new RuntimeException("Failed to initialize IRC Bot's execution context", e); } // Bridge with old XWiki Context, required for old code. XWikiContext xwikiContext = stubContextProvider.createStubContext(); context.setProperty(XWikiContext.EXECUTIONCONTEXT_KEY, xwikiContext); execution.pushContext(context); } I'm thus proposing to do this: * Create a xwiki-platform-container-deamon module * Introduce a ContextualizedThread which extends Thread and which adds an initializeExecutionContext() method Thus when we need to create threads we extend ContextualizedThread and in our run() method we start by calling initializeExecutionContext(). Implementation detail: * This new module will depend on xwiki-platform-oldcore since it needs to use XWikiStubContextProvider * This means that this new module cannot be used from within xwiki-platform-oldcore but that should be ok since I don't see why we would need to create threads in there Rationale: * The reason I need this is because I've recoded the code snippet I've put above in the new IRC Bot application and now I'm finding that the Link Checker feature (which uses a Thread) is also missing this and I need to add it there too. Thus we really need to put this code in a common place, hence the suggestion for the new deamon module. Here's my +1 Thanks -Vincent