Tag copy constructors

[thehl]

My life would get considerably easier if spring tags had copy constructors, namely

RequestContextAwareTag
HtmlEscapingAwareTag
AbstractFormTag
AbstractDataBoundFormElementTag
AbstractHtmlElementTag
AbstractHtmlInputElementTag

This is because my tag needs to process groups of tag creating objects and I need to be able to create tags on the fly. Because they're data bound tags too, I need to copy objects. The ones I've seen so far are pageContext and requestContext.

The problem is that requestContext is private.

1) I wish spring would make more things protected and less things private as it would make my job of re-using chunks of the framework easier.

2) If we can add copy constructors to the above classes, I could then extend AbstractHtmlInputElementTag and all my problems would be resolved.

If someone will go for this, I'll cheerfully write the code!

Thanks.

[thehl]

I am attempting to change RequestContextAwareTag to move out the initialization of the requestContext into a protected method so I can call in it a sublcass, but I'm having difficulties with the build.

When I do build alljars, I'm getting

   [jarjar] Building jar: D:\spring\spring-framework-2.5.4\dist\spring.jar
  [bndwrap] spring.jar                 2144 resources            0 bytes

  [bndwrap] Warnings
  [bndwrap] Superfluous export-package instructions: [org, org.aopalliance, org.
springframework, org.springframework.cache, org.springframework.ejb, org.springf
ramework.instrument, org.springframework.jca]
     [move] Moving 1 file to D:\spring\spring-framework-2.5.4\dist

fullsources:
      [jar] Building jar: D:\spring\spring-framework-2.5.4\dist\spring-sources.j
ar

modulejars:

BUILD FAILED
D:\spring\spring-framework-2.5.4\build.xml:498: D:\spring\spring-framework-2.5.4
\jarcontent\spring-aop not found.

Total time: 7 minutes 50 seconds


D:\spring\spring-framework-2.5.4>

Ideas?

thanks.