[Building Sakai] /direct/ access to msgcntr topics

[George Pipkin]

Hi -

    I'm writing about a feature that we have come to use quite heavily 
in 2.7.x that apparently is not working in 2.8.x.  Under 2.7.x, we were 
able to view a forum topic directly with a url that looks like this:

https://sakai7.itc.virginia.edu/direct/forum_topic/<toipicId>?p=1


Under 2.8.x, all that comes back is an error indicating that the entity 
cannot be
found, even though the topicId is correct and produces output in other 
invocations of this particular entity provider.  There are a couple of 
things that are puzzling about this.  First off all - under 2.7.x the 
entity provider in question (ForumTopicEntityProviderImpl) does not 
implement the RequestHandler interface, and there is no EVAP in sight to 
provide this functionality. However, it does work under v2.7.x, and does 
not under v2.8.x.  I notice that there have been a number of additions 
to this class in 2.8.x.  However, I can't figure out how they would have 
interfered with this.  I was wondering if anybody could shed any light 
on what might have happened ?

                                 - George Pipkin
                                     U.Va.