Patrick and I talked about doing that, however, we came up against several
roadblocks:
1. How would you handle nested packages? For example: /foo/bar/joe?
2. How would you handle action methods?
3. The case might not always match
One possible solution would be to introduce "wildcard modifiers" that would let
you modify the wildcard-matched value. For example, in problem #3, you would
want to have "foo/bar" used for the action class "com.acme.{1}.{2}". You could
apply a modifier like so - "com.acme.{1}.{2|capitalize}" - which would
capitalize the Action name. The idea from these modifiers comes from Javascript
Templates [1].
The modifiers could solve problems 3 and maybe 1
("com.acme.{1|slashesToDots}.{2|capitalize}"), and perhaps #2 could be solved by
using the "!" separator instead of the "/" again.
However, the question must be raised whether these improvements obscure the
somewhat advanced wildcard capability. There is a danger in being too fancy for
your own good, resulting in a feature that is perceived as too complicated and
detrimental to the framework. Whether that applies here is up for discussion.
Don
Ted Husted wrote:
On 8/2/06, Patrick Lightbody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Classes named FooAction map to the action named "foo"
Paths come from sub-packages inside of com.acme.actions. Ex:
com.acme.actions.foo.BarAction -> /foo/bar
If we conform the case, and drop the "Action" suffix, this turns into
a very clean wildcard expression:
* <action name="*/*" class="com.acme.{1}.{2}">
So the action reference for "whatever.foo.Bar" would be "/foo/Bar"
Results map to the same directory path with the addition of "-success"
If we use the packages for folder names, and the class names for page
names, then we could use another clean wilcard expression.
* <result>/{1}/{2}.jsp</result>
So, the nominal result for the foo.Bar action would be /foo/Bar.jsp.
We could consider providing some wildcard defaults in the default
package, which people could then tweak and override as needed.
-T.
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