From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.9 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030314 Description of problem: The c.a.kernel.KernelHelper class has been deprecated for several releases now, with equivalent & better functionality available from KernelContext and WebContext. It is about time it was removed altogether, particularly so we can identify the few remaining places that use getCurrentUser(). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. N/A 2. 3. Additional info:
I turns out that since we removed most of the config params from the legacy kernel.Initializer, nothing is ever setting up the variables used by getServerName(), getServerPort(), getHostname() methods of KernelHelper. As a result all code that does still happen to be using KernelHelper is getting "" & thus breaking in also sorts of subtle ways. We should either remove getServerName(), etc immediately forcing people to switch the new APIs, or make the existing deprecated ones proxies for corresponding methods in Web.getConfig() so that the existing semantics are preserved.
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