On 10/23/07, Martin Gilday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where abouts is the annotations plugin housed? I could not see it in > the struts2 trunk or sandbox trunk. Following Don's comment in this > https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-2264 I was interested in > trying to created this feature "A new feature we could add would be a > new annotation so that a user could annotate which setters/getters can > be accessed, which is probably a good idea regardless.".
We've been doing something like this with .NET at work, except that we were listing the properties an "action" accepted in XML. I like the concept, since it more clearly defines the API contract, but I was always, always, always, adding new properties and forgetting to add them to the list. With annotations, this might be less of a problem, but this is also a place where's Matt's "fumble-finger" alerts would be helpful. A related idea would be an "accept" validator that says populating the property is permitted but optional. In that case, a strict validation mode would reject any properties without a validator. Either way, this feature could also lead to actions being able to describe themselves, the way services do. (Hmm, are annotations tied to JavaDocs these days?) -Ted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
