Re: [OS-webwork] Setup form on validation failure...

2003-12-12 Thread Francisco Hernandez
you can do pre-execute-processing using the Preparable interface with the Preparable Interceptor, just make sure the interceptor runs before the validation and workflow interceptors if you're using those. Tao Starbow wrote: Does anyone have any tips on doing preprocessing when a form fails v

[OS-webwork] Setup form on validation failure...

2003-12-12 Thread Tao Starbow
Does anyone have any tips on doing preprocessing when a form fails validation? I have a form that some information from the database to set up the user interface. Normally I just do this in the execute method. But when the form fails xwork validation, the execute method is never called. Does t

Re: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread Fredrik Lindgren
ServletDispatcher.init initializes the VelocityManager, which in its turn imports some velocity classes. The ServletDispatcher does not use the VelocityManager, hence should not depend on it. As a matter of fact the WebWorkVelocityServlet also initializes the velocityManager. This should mean t

Re: [OS-webwork] [OS-xwork] Spring IoC integration

2003-12-12 Thread Mike Cannon-Brookes
I talked to him about this on ICQ actually. It does make it more flexible and powerful, but also more complex. I'm not sure that complexity is needed (even Cameron himself says he doesn't need it), so can we add it when/if someone requests it? :) As for the resolver resolving one reference at onc

RE: [OS-webwork] RE: [picocontainer-dev] Interceptors Instantiation

2003-12-12 Thread Jason Carreira
Title: Message I was thinking more generically of   BeanFactory.getFactory().buildBean(BeanClass.class, Map params) or something...   But I'm not sure till I get in there. -Original Message-From: Cameron Braid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 11:4

[OS-webwork] RE: [picocontainer-dev] Interceptors Instantiation

2003-12-12 Thread Jason Carreira
Please create a Jira on this for post xwork 1.0 and I'll take a look. I don't remember the details of the internals off the top of my head... > -Original Message- > From: Vincent Tencé [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 11:55 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL

RE: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread Jason Carreira
Xwork is a generic command pattern implementation with no web dependencies at all, either Servlet/JSP or Velocity. > -Original Message- > From: remigijus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 8:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] WebWorks witho

RE: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread Jason Carreira
And if it's not already so, then it will be made so that you do not need velocity if you don't want to use the UI tags / velocity templates. Ognl is a different story, as it is used throughout. It's equivalent to the WW1 EL which cannot be removed. > -Original Message- > From: Hani Suleim

RE: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread Drew McAuliffe
Xwork has NO dependencies on velocity! None! Zero! Webwork is a web-centric presentation layer that offers several presentation methods, including JSP, velocity, and freemarker. It happens to use velocity behind the scenes. That has nothing to do with the relationship between webwork and xwork! Not

RE: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread Drew McAuliffe
I disagree back. It depends on what the thing is that's being used. As it is, OGNL is pretty core to a lot of functionality in webwork and xwork both. It's a core dependency. You couldn't remove it without a lot of hassle, and at that point, why bother using xwork or webwork at all? Find another co

[OS-webwork] RE: [picocontainer-dev] Interceptors Instantiation

2003-12-12 Thread Vincent Tencé
Thanks for the great news Jason. We're looking forward to that! XWork and Pico together is a real winning combination. Currently, there is an issue with the Pico integration and I'd like to leverage your expertise on XWork. Pico-extras defines a sub-class of DefaultActionInvocation that overrides

RE: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread Jason Carreira
> -Original Message- > From: remigijus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Sorry - I'm totally confused here. XWork is WebWork without the > presentation > > layer. What is WebWork without a presentation layer?!? > > > > (Nothing! :)) > > > > If you will look at it as an Http layer it

RE: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread Jason Carreira
:-) I don't know if I'd use the word "lurking" > -Original Message- > From: Tracy Snell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 6:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to > > > > On Dec 11, 2003, at 1:22 PM, Jason C

Re: [OS-webwork] RE: [picocontainer-dev] Interceptors Instantiation

2003-12-12 Thread Cameron Braid
Great idea ;) So will there be a XworkFactoryFactory ;) interface XworkFactoryFactory {    ActionFactory getActionFactory();    InterceptorFactory getInterceptorFactory();    ExternalRefrenceResolverFactory getExternalRefrenceResolverFactory()     etc.. } Cameron Jason Carreira wrote: In

RE: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread Jason Carreira
What uses Velocity outside the templates? > -Original Message- > From: Fredrik Lindgren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 2:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to > > > I looked through the code a bit last nig

Re: Fwd: Re: [OS-webwork] [OS-xwork] Spring IoC integration

2003-12-12 Thread Cameron Braid
The modifications that I have made won't be going into Xwork since the existing functionalty should be sufficient for most (probably all) needs. The existing system allows you to define an external refrence resolver (per package, with inheritence from the parent package). You can then add tag

RE: [OS-webwork] [OS-xwork] Spring IoC integration

2003-12-12 Thread Jason Carreira
So Mike, You guys developed the external-ref stuff, what do you think of Cameron's changes? It sounds like he made it more flexible and powerful to me... > -Original Message- > From: Mike Cannon-Brookes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 4:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PRO

RE: [OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2

2003-12-12 Thread Tim Dwelle
In addition, I recommend disallowing *any* method invocations (static or not) from an HTTP request. Quoting Jason Carreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think this is the way to go. We'll have to wait for Patrick to come > in to hear his thoughts. > > > -Original Message- > > From: Camer

[OS-webwork] RE: [picocontainer-dev] Interceptors Instantiation

2003-12-12 Thread Jason Carreira
Interceptors are instantiated once per ActionConfig (per Action alias). I believe there's an InterceptorBuilder class (or something like that) that Mike C-B refactored out of the original design. Right now this is not pluggable. One of by big plans for Xwork 1.1 is to refactor ALL object instan

RE: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null?

2003-12-12 Thread Jason Carreira
Well, fucked is a little strong... You can (and someone should, just not me :-) ) create UI templates that will access the type conversion error map to get the submitted values which could not be converted and re-display them. > -Original Message- > From: Mike Cannon-Brookes [mailto:[EMAI

RE: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null?

2003-12-12 Thread Jason Carreira
What about the case where you had some previous state in the field from the session and you want to empty it out? You'd never be able to. > -Original Message- > From: BOGAERT Mathias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 5:21 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject:

RE: [OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2

2003-12-12 Thread Jason Carreira
I think this is the way to go. We'll have to wait for Patrick to come in to hear his thoughts. > -Original Message- > From: Cameron Braid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 10:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2 > >

[OS-webwork] RE: [Webwork-user] Re: Simple Database Example

2003-12-12 Thread Jason Carreira
That's not handled by Xwork. You'll want to look at setting up your persistence tool, like Hibernate. > -Original Message- > From: grendelAI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 8:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Webwork-user] Re: Simple Database Example

Re: [OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2

2003-12-12 Thread Cameron Braid
Surely the OGNL context that these expressions (params interceptor) are being executed within can be configured to disallow static invocation. Cameron Tobias Järlund wrote: Well, this seems to go well beyond shutting down the server. I'm pretty sceptical to the idea of having parameter names i

Re: [OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2

2003-12-12 Thread Tobias Järlund
Well, this seems to go well beyond shutting down the server. I'm pretty sceptical to the idea of having parameter names interpreted as OGNL expressions at all. OGNL is just too powerful to allow anyone to execute arbitrary OGNL expressions through the URL. Imagine what a call like http://serve

Re: [OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2

2003-12-12 Thread Blake Day
Disallowing POSTs with unknown referrers doesn't work at all. You can forge the Referer header easily. Blake - Original Message - From: "Carlos Villela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 8:32 AM Subject: RES: [OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2

Re: [OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2

2003-12-12 Thread Blake Day
Is this an issue with Webwork 1.4 as well? Blake - Original Message - From: "BOGAERT Mathias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 9:06 AM Subject: RE: [OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2 > FYI you can find information on how to do this for WebLog

Re: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null?

2003-12-12 Thread Dick Zetterberg
Perhaps I don't understand you, or perhaps I was not clear enough earlier. If you do not have a field in your form then of course the property will be null. If the field contained the empty string then the property (if it is a String) will be set to the empty string. There is nothing strange ab

Re: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread Fredrik Lindgren
The point is that even though the current state of affairs is that velocity is required behind the scenes and for the UI tags, it seems to fairly easy to fix that. In case it is easy to fix it, we should do so, since webwork should not have more required dependencies than needed. I don't think

RE: [OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2

2003-12-12 Thread BOGAERT Mathias
FYI you can find information on how to do this for WebLogic 8.1 here: http://edocs.bea.com/wls/docs81/security/server_prot.html#1032262 Mathias -Original Message- From: Hani Suleiman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 12 december 2003 14:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OS-web

Re: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread remigijus
Yes you ar right. I do accept yours opinion. I only wanted to state not evryting have to be that way. As exaple OGNL or any other critical palt that is critical can to be as a must, here is nothing wrong in that. But velocity is not a must part. Again I saw what someone is working on RichControls,

Re: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread remigijus
Ok I'm fine, I only said my opinion, and it's strong. If evryone is happy with that and sees no preblem here then I'm not going to complain. Then we are comming back why did you split ww2 and xwork? Sounds like this was interesting job, and that is not so intesting, so will we leave it as it is. I'

Re: [OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2

2003-12-12 Thread John Patterson
Time for me to brush up! I have never altered them before and have only run into them when a client running WebLogic could not make a network connection due to a restrictive default policy. It must be possible to restrict access to sensitive classes using this system. Probably makes a lot of sen

Re: [OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2

2003-12-12 Thread Hani Suleiman
It's not as easy as it sounds. The JVM allows one security policy, so you'd have to fine tune a policy file and ensure that it doesn't cause your appserver to become upset. Some servers have their own policy files that need to be tweaked, others will need one from scratch. On Dec 12, 2003, at

Re: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread Hani Suleiman
I disagree. I think the point he's making is 'if I don't want to use velocity templates, I should not need velocity'. Equivelant statements are: 'if I don't want to use ognl-expressions, I should not need ognl' 'if I don't want to use jasper reports, I should not need jasper reports' 'if I don'

RE: [OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2

2003-12-12 Thread BOGAERT Mathias
Well, we are not all up to date on Java security policies, but since you seem to be, care to enlighten us? Thanks, Mathias -Original Message- From: John Patterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 12 december 2003 14:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Security flaw

RE: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread Drew McAuliffe
Unfortunately, that's like saying if I don't like commons-logging, I shouldn't be forced to use it. Or if I don't like ognl, I shouldn't be forced to use it. You can't make every dependency in the library pluggable. The only reason I could see velocity becoming a barrier to your work with webwork w

Re: [OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2

2003-12-12 Thread John Patterson
Time to brush up on Java security policies. - Original Message - From: "Carlos Villela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 1:32 PM Subject: RES: [OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2 OOUCH! Ok, possible solutions: - Disallow POSTs with unknow

RES: [OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2

2003-12-12 Thread Carlos Villela
OOUCH! Ok, possible solutions: - Disallow POSTs with unknown referers (sucks, but works) - Disallow use of java.lang.System, java.lang.Runtime and friends in OGNL (good & works) Good catch, John! -cv -Mensagem original- De: John Patterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: sext

Re: [OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2

2003-12-12 Thread remigijus
Cool, very cool. What are you going to do with that? - Original Message - From: "John Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Webwork" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 3:23 PM Subject: [OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2 > Guess what this does? > > > > http://myhost/

[OS-webwork] Security flaw with WW2

2003-12-12 Thread John Patterson
Guess what this does? http://myhost/app/myAction.action> John. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and

Re: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null?

2003-12-12 Thread remigijus
Regardless what have been said before. Treatment of strings and other form's variable has to be as it is written HTTP and HTML protocol and ww1, ww2, struts, maven or whatever have to be implemented in the way as it is in specification. They have to be transparent. Are you gaing to explain to every

Re: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread remigijus
- Original Message - From: "Tracy Snell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 1:49 PM Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to > > On Dec 11, 2003, at 1:22 PM, Jason Carreira wrote: > > > WW1 you can use without velocity, WW2 uses

Re: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread remigijus
- Original Message - From: "Mike Cannon-Brookes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 11:55 AM Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to > > It's very nice to hear such answer. I'm not against velocity, I only little > > confused ab

Re: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread Tracy Snell
On Dec 11, 2003, at 1:22 PM, Jason Carreira wrote: WW1 you can use without velocity, WW2 uses velocity for its UI tag templates. If you don't plan to use the UI tags, you can remove it. You can use WW2 and just use JSPs and never have to write any Velocity templates. However, Velocity is still t

RE: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null?

2003-12-12 Thread Lars Fischer
Sorry, I was talking about the BeanUtil part in WW 1.2 / 1.3. Something like BeanUtil.setProperties(ActionContext.getContext().getParameters(), bean_to_set_properties); When working with a bean to reflect a row in a Database, it's wrong to set String values for bean propertties to "" when the

Re: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null?

2003-12-12 Thread Dick Zetterberg
- Original Message - From: "Mathias Berg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 11:18 AM Subject: RE: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null? > A question, why is Long parameters from the FORM set to null, and not > String? Cant i

Re: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null?

2003-12-12 Thread Mike Cannon-Brookes
Well, that's why we almost always use Strings for critical data - data conversion (like ints has many problems). Chief among them IMHO is that if you have a textfield backed by a get/set int method, and someone submits 'abc' - you're fucked (regardless of whether it sets null, 0, -1 or any other v

Re: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null?

2003-12-12 Thread Dick Zetterberg
Yes you can, you just do not include them in the form. Different forms could for example be used to submit data to the same action. Dick - Original Message - From: "BOGAERT Mathias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 10:59 AM Subject: RE: [OS-web

RE: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null?

2003-12-12 Thread BOGAERT Mathias
That is indeed a problem, but why would this be interesting to know? I expect WebWork not to call any setters on my action (to set fields) when the form field is not filled (empty). Also, if empty String resolves to "", why an empty Integer to null and not new Integer(0)? Mathias -Original M

RE: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null?

2003-12-12 Thread Mathias Berg
Title: RE: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null? A question, why is Long parameters from the FORM set to null, and not String? Cant it be set to Long(0) then? /Mathias. -Original Message- From: Francisco Hernandez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: den 12 decembe

Re: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null?

2003-12-12 Thread Mike Cannon-Brookes
_exactly_ - you put it perfectly mate. So how do you tell the difference between a parameter, and not a parameter? (ie the text field never existed on the form at all) :) Cheers, Mike On 12/12/03 8:59 PM, "BOGAERT Mathias" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) penned the words: > The problem here is that a HTML

Re: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null?

2003-12-12 Thread Francisco Hernandez
seems to be some confusion with this, can someone post what it currently works like in ww1 and how its supposed to in ww2 (same as ww1, for backwards compat i assume..) so say I have foo.action with bar string property what should bar be when i submit an action like foo.action?bar= what should

RE: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null?

2003-12-12 Thread BOGAERT Mathias
The problem here is that a HTML form ALWAYS submits parameters as empty strings, you cannot 'not' send a parameter in. Mathias -Original Message- From: Dick Zetterberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 12 december 2003 10:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Empty str

Re: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null?

2003-12-12 Thread Mike Cannon-Brookes
Actually, I agree with Dick here - it _SHOULD_ be an empty String, not null. The empty string indicates that the form was submitted with an empty value in the text field - which is exactly what happened. A null value indicates that the form was not submitted, or else the text field did not exist

Re: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread Mike Cannon-Brookes
> It's very nice to hear such answer. I'm not against velocity, I only little > confused about some decisions was made for ww2. I truly believe that ww2 > should be able to work even without presentation layer. But to provide full > functionality it has already, it should have an additional present

Re: [OS-webwork] [OS-xwork] Spring IoC integration

2003-12-12 Thread Mike Cannon-Brookes
Francois, :) As for why it's required, it makes everything more flexible - and it's not required at all. Just ignore it and it will do you no harm. Pico is good (for somethings) but personally I much prefer Spring (that's a large debate for another time - each to their own) :) - XWorks IoC cont

Re: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null?

2003-12-12 Thread Dick Zetterberg
In WW1.3 and 1.4 a string parameter that is empty will set the string property to the empty string. Not null. If your program choose to interpret this as null that is up to you. How can you otherwise see the difference between a parameter that is not sent in at all and one that is sent in but is

Re: [OS-webwork] Empty string property now "" instead of null?

2003-12-12 Thread Francisco Hernandez
by [""] value do you mean a parameter was passed to the action like foo.action?bar= ?? Jason Carreira wrote: So WW1.3 takes [""] and sets null on a String property? -Original Message- From: Lars Fischer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 6:38 AM To: [EMAIL P

RE: [OS-webwork] RE: JSP tags in velocity

2003-12-12 Thread Fred Lamuette
Freemark looks powerfull, I'd like specially the  builtin support for using jsp taglibs. I will give it a try right now. Thank you, Cameron. Richard HALLIER. -Message d'origine-De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]De la part de Cameron BraidEnvoyé : vendredi 12

Re: [OS-webwork] [OS-xwork] Spring IoC integration

2003-12-12 Thread Cameron Braid
It is a neater soloution to provide a plugable external resolver system into xwork. Xwork's IOC container is currently limited to only one instance of any component type, similiar to Nano or Pico container's 'metadata free' configuiration. (i.e. it uses type matching to resolve components) Th

Re: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread remigijus
- Original Message - From: "Fredrik Lindgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to > I looked through the code a bit last night with a special interest on the > Velocity dependencies.

Re: [OS-webwork] WebWorks without velocity how to

2003-12-12 Thread Fredrik Lindgren
I looked through the code a bit last night with a special interest on the Velocity dependencies. As far as I can see it would be quite easy to refactor the current UI tags to avoid the hard coded velocity dependency and provide a plugable template handler. This would allow for a template handle

RE: [OS-webwork] [OS-xwork] Spring IoC integration

2003-12-12 Thread Francois Beauregard
Why all of this external reference resolver thing gets into XWork? Couldn't you just extend DefaultActionProxyFactory, DefaultActionInvocation and do whatever logic to integrate with the IoC container and/or use an interceptor? Even XWorks own IoC container does not need this kind of modification