Yes... I'm sorry that that discussion has stalled. Although I don't even know if that's an incremental step towards a POJO action -- it's practically all you need, plus a little more smarts in the CreateAction command. I'll go post a ping.
OK, so I actually started looking at using POJOs for Actions, and it's a bit trickier than I'd thought, but I may want to use it on a current project, so if people want to talk about it, there's a chance I'll get it into Struts 1.3 sooner than later...
I like the general idea of saying that the "type" property can be an Action, a Command, or a pojo. Perhaps there's no point in using Command when you can use a pojo too?
My thought is that CreateAction would just check the type instance and if it wasn't an instance of Action, it would wrap it in a new class, ActionWrapper, which would take an instance and a method and then do the invocation in its execute method.
Postulating something like ActionContextFactory.getCurrentInstance(), the ActionWrapper would look something like this:
public class ActionWrapper extends Action {
public ActionWrapper(Object instance, String method) {
this.instance = instance;
this.method = method;
}
public ActionForward execute(m,f,r,r) {
Object pojo = getInstance();
// perform reflection and invocation
return (ActionForward) ActionContextFactory.getCurrentInstance().getForwardConfig();
}
}
Does that seem like a workable approach?
Along the way I was also entertaining thoughts of getting ActionCommand in here, but then I kept thinking "why again didn't we change Action to have an 'execute(ActionContext)' method"? But I guess if there's a way to execute POJOs then I have a ready way to get the current ActionContext, which is the real item of interest -- especially if we are using a custom implementation of ActionContext with properties that reflect our application's request/session-scoped properties.
Joe
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