out of curiosity - why is this global RequestConte...

# http4k

[Stefan]

out of curiosity - why is this global RequestContexts store with a concurrent hashmap needed? Wouldn't it just be enough to attach an immutable Map<Key,Any> as context to each request?

[Andrew O'Hara]

As much as that would simplify things, my guess is that it makes no sense to expose such a thing to clients; only relevant to servers.

[Stefan]

it would allow to pass information between filters immutable, without accessing a concurrent, shared data structure