Thanks! Will ask the question on user list.
Just curious, Is there any book/document/block discussing 'design and
evolution' of struts and why certain design decisions were taken?
> Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 11:31:50 +0200
> Subject: RE: ModelDriven, a wrong choice of interface?
> From: gie...@it-neering.net
> To: dev@struts.apache.org
>
> You seem to be addressing the wrong issues with ModelDriven. The sole
> purpose of ModelDriven is to push the exposed model property on top of
> your stack (where usually your Action resides), which maps great for many
> CRUD like usecases - and, as we know, for many people out there.
>
> Actually there is nothing to "fix" in ModelDriven. Regarding your
> usecases, the user list is the right place to discuss best pratices.
>
> Am Di, 5.05.2009, 03:06, schrieb Unmesh joshi:
> >
> >> Please ask these questions on the users list. This list is for the
> >> development of struts itself.
> >>
> >> musachy
> >
> > I was more interested in knowing what struts developers think of
> > ModelDriven interface. Use of ModelDriven interface is awkward at times.I
> > thought allowing users to provide strategy for parameter mapping as
> > metadata, like I have shown in my email, can be more useful and cleaner.
> > Thanks,Unmesh
> >
> >> Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 09:12:10 -0400
> >> Subject: Re: ModelDriven, a wrong choice of interface?
> >> From: musa...@gmail.com
> >> To: dev@struts.apache.org
> >>
> >> Please ask these questions on the users list. This list is for the
> >> development of struts itself.
> >>
> >> musachy
> >>
> >> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Unmesh joshi <unmesh_jo...@hotmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi,
> >> > I am using struts2 on my current project and find ModelDriven
> >> interface very inconvenient. The intent of the interface is documented
> >> as, "it helps directly populating domain model". But if the domain
> >> model is little more complex than a simple bean, it becomes very
> >> inconvinient. e.g.
> >> > If my domain model is as follows
> >> > class Order { String orderNumber; UserInformation user; }
> >> > class UserInformation { String firstName; String lastName;
> >> Address address;}
> >> > class Address { String addressLine1; String city; String state;}
> >> > The problem with ModelDriven is that I have to use OGNL expressions
> >> like user.address.addressLine1 in my HTML form. While this is not a
> >> bigger issue for the simple example as above, it can be awkward for
> >> little more complex domain models. What suits better for those domain
> >> models is to have a builder, which has setters for all the parameters
> >> on the form and has responsibility to build the actual domain model
> >> objects. Something like following
> >> > class OrderBuilder { String orderNumber; String firstName; String
> >> lastName; String addressLine1; String city; String state; public
> >> Order build() { ...... } }
> >> >
> >> > I can offcourse use this builder as Model, fooling struts framework
> >> like following
> >> > class MyAction imeplements ModelDriven<OrderBuilder> { private
> >> OrderBuilder builder; public OrderBuilder getModel() {
> >> > builder = new OrderBuilder(); return builder; }
> >> > public void execute() { orderBuilder.build(); // Then use
> >> order }} But I think this reads very badly. Instead, will it make
> >> more sense to have a annotation for "parameter mapping strategy"?
> >> Something like
> >> > Instead ofclass MyAction implements ModelDriven<Order>
> >> > have following
> >> > @BeanMappingStrategy(beanName="order") //expects OGNL in parameter
> >> names to map to beanclass MyAction { Order order;}
> >> > or
> >> > @BuilderMappingStrategy(builderName="oderBuilder") // knows that its
> >> dealing with builder, so will call build method.class MyAction {
> >> OrderBuilder orderBuilder;}
> >> > What do you guys think?
> >> > Thanks,Unmesh
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