Rane, 2007/8/17, Rene Gielen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ruimo, > > see below > > Ruimo Uno schrieb: > > Hi, thanks for your comment. > > > > 2007/8/17, Rene Gielen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> It's no bug, it's a feature... > >> > >> The policy for model access (e.g. property calls) via expression > >> evaluation is fail silent. It would cause tons of exceptions if ognl > >> expression evaluation / property access would not swallow them. > > > > I feel it is overkill. The property getters in action classes may > > throw RuntimeException because of programming bugs. Even in this case, > > the current implementation just ignore the exception and the shown > > page will be just corrupted. We cannot show user friendly 'sorry page' > > because the Struts exception handler cannot get exception. > > > > You would not be able to use the most common use patterns without having > to do exepction handling on the JSP page then! Think of a model object > foo with a getter getFoo() in your a FooCrudAction. You have an > editFoo.jsp. If you want to create a new foo entry, the sequence would be > - invoke edit/create action, triggering execute() in FooCrudAction > - render editFoo.jsp > - submit form > - invoke save action, triggering save() in FooCrudAction > - on success, render editFoo.jsp > > if ognl would not swallow the exceptions, then placing simple tag like > <s:textfield label="'Name'" name="foo.name" /> > would fail with NPE in first rendering if you did not provide a > (unnecessary) this.foo=new Foo() in your execute() method, or a lazy > getter. Just a simple example. But if you would change this behaviour, > the showcase app code would need approximately an additional 10-15% more > code just for doing unneeded initializations and exception handling.
You won't get NPE in this scenario. Ognl automatically create instance for you. I believe you know about this feature. > What if the execption is thrown? It will be thrown within JSP page > handling, and swallowed there! Your OpenSessionInView Interceptor or any > higher level layer would take no notice of the exception. Instead you > would have to use the anti-pattern of exception handliing with in JSP > code to present useful information. In the API specification for PageContext.handleException() states the following: --- If no error page is defined in the page, the exception should be rethrown so that the standard servlet error handling takes over. --- If my understanding is correct, the exception should be rethrown and the servlet layer can handle it. > >> Most likely, you are doing business logic calls in your model access > >> domain and you should think of moving any call with the possibility to get > >> service relevant exceptions to the described business logic domain access > >> methods. > > > > No, it is not 'business logc'. In 'open session in view' pattern, the > > db transaction is kept open until the view rendering finishies. If you > > call the property access method of the acction class, it calls the > > getter method of tne entity class. It triggers O/R mapping layer > > invocation and lazily accesses the database. As a result, some kind of > > system exception (such as SQLException) may be thrown while view > > rendering. > > > > This pattern is widely used, I'm using it myself in many applications. > But where do you expect the exception? If you make sure that you have a > foo object loaded from persistence layer, the the foo.getBars() call to > a a lazy initialized collection of referenced objects should never fail > due to _runtime_ problems you have to deal with. If, for example, for > some reason your session is closed, you have to look for a design time > problem - most commonly people forget about holding the session open > (luckily we have OpenSessionInView). Closing the session should be fixed as a design bug. I agree with you at this point. But in this case, the system should show an user friendly 'sorry page' so that the user can perform appropriate action. As we cannot take all bugs out of our system, need a sfety net. If there is a network problem between ap server and db server, lazy loading will fail by system error. > The best practice pattern for a displaying a foo object looks like this: > > - invoke showFoo.action?id=1 > - prepare() method of your action: this.foo = fooService.getById(this.id) > - handle any exception you like, or let it pop to the upper layers > - on success, render showFoo.jsp > - iterate over foo.bars in view - will be lazy initialized, but should > not throw any exception is your design was proper My previous example may be poor to explain this issue. Sorry for that. But as I stated above, you still need to care about system exception and RuntimeException (thrown by programming bug). I am not talking about application exception. You can hardly avoid system error and programming bug by implementing logics in your code. > but if there was an exception, and OGNL would pop it, you still would > _never_ get it in your Interceptor - your container will swallow it when > rendering the JSP. > > it's the same for saving etc as well. > Did you check out these?: > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WW/CRUD+Demo+I > http://appfuse.org/display/APF/Demos+and+Videos > > Regards, > Rene > > >> Am Do, 16.08.2007, 17:01, schrieb Ruimo Uno: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I have submitted this to user list a few hours ago but finally, I > >>> found the root cause of this issue. So, here I report it to dev list. > >>> If an exception is thrown while OGNL expression evaluation such as in > >>> the following scenario: > >>> > >>> XXXAction > >>> public String getMessage() { > >>> throw new NullPointerException(); > >>> } > >>> > >>> XXX.jsp > >>> <s:property value="message"/> > >>> > >>> The exception is wrapped in an OgnlException and re-thrown. It is > >>> caught in com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.CompoundRootAccessor.getProperty() > >>> and wrapped in a XWorkException() and re-thrown. > >>> > >>> } catch (OgnlException e) { > >>> if (e.getReason() != null) { > >>> final String msg = "Caught an Ognl exception while getting > >>> property " + name; > >>> throw new XWorkException(msg, e); > >>> } > >>> } catch (IntrospectionException e) { > >>> > >>> Finally, it is caught in > >>> com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.OgnlValueStack.findValue(String, Class) > >>> and swallowed. > >>> > >>> } catch (Exception e) { > >>> logLookupFailure(expr, e); > >>> > >>> return findInContext(expr); > >>> } finally { > >>> > >>> As a result, the upper layer does not receive any exception. So, no > >>> exception handler is invoked even if it is registered. Moreover, in > >>> 'open session in view' pattern, since the upper layer are not notified > >>> any error, the transaction is wrongly committed and it causes serious > >>> problem. > >>> > >>> I tried to add a catch clause for RuntimeException: > >>> > >>> } catch (RuntimeException e) { > >>> logLookupFailure(expr, e); > >>> throw e; > >>> } catch (Exception e) { > >>> logLookupFailure(expr, e); > >>> > >>> return findInContext(expr); > >>> } finally { > >>> > >>> Yes, the exception is successfully thrown to the upper layer with this > >>> code change. However, Struts shows 'java.io.IOException: Stream > >>> closed:' on the browser. This message seems a bit confusing. and > >>> difficult to realize what is actually happening (NPE is thrown). Does > >>> anybody have better solution on this? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Ruimo Uno > >>> (Shisei Hanai) > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> Rene Gielen | http://it-neering.net/ > >> Aachen | PGP-ID: BECB785A > >> Germany | gielen at it-neering.net > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > > -- > Rene Gielen | http://it-neering.net/ > Aachen | PGP-ID: BECB785A > Germany | gielen at it-neering.net > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Ruimo Uno (Shisei Hanai) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
