This leads me to another question. What is the best way to implement the forwarding in the model that I described below. The url is formed by document id and template name, so completely dynamically. I've been using a very bad hack where I put the url in the session and forward it to a .jsp called forwarder.jsp, which in turn pulls the url from the session and forwards. This isn't a very WW-like design, and I'm sure there must be a better way, but as far as I can tell, the redirect action built in is dependent on xwork.xml mappings, thus not dynamic (even if I use different aliases for the same action). My attempts to write my own forward.action have led to some interesting recursive messes, which is why I initially gave up on the idea. Now I'm convinced it is what I want. Any advice?
-Robert Douglass -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Douglass Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OS-webwork] Hyperlink best practices - use of actions The idea of the browse.action, given an id and a templateName, is that the getModel() method can do something like return dataBase.getDocument(id); and the forward could do something like forwardTo(documentType, templateName); One would then name the template files (vm or jsp) DocumentType_TemplateName.jsp, or by some other convention. browse.action?id=4711&template=homepage // if document 4711 is a user, then this will lead to the user's homepage browse.action?id=4711&template=admin // this will lead to the administration page for that user (ostensibly off limits to that user as well!) Does anyone else use a pattern like this? What are the possible drawbacks? -Robert Douglass -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Francisco Hernandez Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 8:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Hyperlink best practices - use of actions this is how i've done it, homepage -> login -> homepage(with a welcome message to the user) -> viewProfile -> editProfile -> updateProfile -> viewProfile the *Profile actions can only be accessed if the user is logged in, if someone tries to access those pages and are not they just get sent to the homepage after a good login theres a redirect to the homepage action editProfile gets posted to updateProfile and then redirected back to viewProfile on success hope this helps, im not sure what your browse.action does though and how that would fit into my usage pattern for this Robert Douglass wrote: > I have another question on how people organize the navigation within their > apps. First a use case: > > login -> homepage -> account details -> change password > >>From what I have understood so far, a typical WW application would have > > login.action -> homepage.action -> account.action -> and changePass.action > > Each action would build up the context or offer a model in anticipation of > the page to come. Homepage.action would offer a UserBean as a model, and > account.action would offer an AccountBean, or something similar. Xork.xml > would specify that homepage.success = account.jsp, and homepage.login = > login.jsp. This is what I understand to be the typical approach from reading > the docs, examples and mailing list. > > To me, however, I tend to see the use case above as the following set of > actions: > > login.action, browse.action -> browse.action -> browse.action -> > changePass.action, browse.action > > login.action has no view, browse.success = some sort of forward, > changePass.success has no view. > > In other words, things like logging in and changing account details always > chain to a browse.action. Browse.action would expect to receive at the > minimum an id of some sort and a template name of some sort, from which it > would build a URL and redirect or forward the request to it. > > I haven't implemented this yet, as I'm still discovering the ins and outs of > basic WW2 usage. The question is, though, does anybody else do business this > way? If so, how did you implement it? > > -Robert Douglass > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Robert Douglass > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 7:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [OS-webwork] Hyperlink best practices > > > Hello, > I'm looking for code examples of how people build their hyperlinks in > WW2/JSP view. The examples in the distribution don't really address this, > and the ww:url tag seems to be more of an encoding helper than the beginning > of a solution to generating dynamic anchor tags. What I'd ideally like is a > <ww:anchor> tag: > > <ww:anchor href="ognl.here" target="'_top'" encode="true|false"> > <ww:param/> > </ww:anchor> > > I'm sure that this problem has been solved a hundred times and I just > haven't comprehended it yet. > > -Robert Douglass > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
