Message contexts and Spring Webflow conversation scope

[Cantor, Scott]

On 2/27/13 7:52 PM, "Brent Putman" <putmanb at georgetown.edu> wrote:
>
>Good question, hadn't really thought of that.  I guess the idea of use
>of conversation scope was to tie the lifetime of the state to the
>lifecycle of the conversation.  I suppose we could theoretically just
>use our own storage indexed with a cookie, but then we'd be responsible
>for managing its lifecycle, doing time expiration for cleanup, etc.
>I'll think on it some more.  Would almost certainly be just as easy
>though, if not easier, to implement the Webflow interfaces, assuming it
>works as expected.

If it's easy to plugin, fine, but it doesn't seem like a big deal if we
have to go back to our own.

In fact, I would say that given the problems with cookies that crop up,
it's worth seeing how Webflow actually deals with those conversation
tokens going missing or not getting set, and if it doesn't allow for
graceful error handling, that's possibly a problem in its own right.

(Not to say we have it working well now in v2, but that's a self-inflicted
issue, we certainly have control.)

-- Scott