Other than aesthetics, what is the importance of keeping the event on
the URL?
Gregg
Akbar Ibrahim wrote:
> To generalize this discussion, suppose I have a FooAction which does
> CRUD operations with Foo objects and that it is bound to /foo
>
> I would have urls like
>
> /foo/list
> /foo/view/{id}
> /foo/new
> /foo/edit/{id}
> /foo/save
> /foo/delete/{id}
>
> In the case of '/foo/save', the form tag will generate the url '/foo'
> (save will be the name on the submit tag). Any validation errors will
> cause the browser to show /foo as the url and not /foo/save.
>
> I don't see any way of getting around this
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Akbar
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Gregg Bolinger
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Ah, I see the difference now. You are correct. You will get a
>> truncated URL because of the event being left off. Your action bean
>> could handle other events than just signIn but you would always have
>> signIn in the URL. So you might have:
>>
>> /security/user/signIn/register
>>
>> Which does look odd.
>>
>> Gregg
>>
>> Akbar Ibrahim wrote:
>>
>>> Gregg,
>>>
>>> Ah, now I get why it didn't work for me as I expected.
>>>
>>> Your action bean is bound to /action/login and the event to display
>>> the login form is called 'display' which doesn't show up anywhere in
>>> the url. The url in the browser is the binding url of the action bean
>>> which is what's shown in case of validatoin errors.
>>>
>>> Whereas in my case, the action bean is bound to /security/user.
>>>
>>> - The url /security/user/signIn invokes the signIn method and
>>> forwards to the signIn view.
>>>
>>> - The form submits to action /security/user using the following submit tag
>>>
>>> <s:submit name="doSignIn" />
>>>
>>> - On validation errors the browser shows /security/user whereas I was
>>> expecting /security/user/signIn
>>>
>>> I could bind my action bean to /security/user/signIn to achieve this,
>>> but it wouldn't work if I want my action bean to handle events other
>>> than signIn.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Akbar
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Gregg Bolinger
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Here is my entire login class. It does, including the URL, exactly what
>>>> you want except mine said login instead of signIn:
>>>>
>>>> @UrlBinding("/action/login")
>>>> public class LoginActionBean extends BaseActionBean {
>>>>
>>>> @ValidateNestedProperties({
>>>> @Validate(field = "username", required = true),
>>>> @Validate(field = "password", required = true)
>>>> })
>>>> private FeedUser user;
>>>>
>>>> private FeedUserService feedUserService;
>>>>
>>>> public FeedUser getUser() {
>>>> return user;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> public void setUser(FeedUser user) {
>>>> this.user = user;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> @SpringBean("feedUserService")
>>>> public void setFeedUserService(FeedUserService feedUserService) {
>>>> this.feedUserService = feedUserService;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> @Override
>>>> public Resolution display() {
>>>> return new ForwardResolution(LOGIN_VIEW);
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> public Resolution login() {
>>>> final FeedUser fu = feedUserService.authenticateFeedUser(user);
>>>> if (fu == null) {
>>>> getContext().getValidationErrors().add("login", new
>>>> LocalizableError("/action/login.invalid"));
>>>> return getContext().getSourcePageResolution();
>>>> }else{
>>>> getContext().setFeedUser(fu);
>>>> return new RedirectResolution(HomeActionBean.class);
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Gregg
>>>>
>>>> Akbar Ibrahim wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Gregg, Levi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the quick responses.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> "If a submit causes validation errors, the browser's title bar will show
>>>>>> the POST generated URL. (This can be worked around by *always*
>>>>>> redirecting after posts, as I once had to do on a previous project, but
>>>>>> that's a lot of effort for a small gain.)"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "small gain" depends on the requirements, doesn't it? So if my client
>>>>>> wants that then the gain is substantial. Anyway, you can get the URL's
>>>>>> you desire by following my suggestions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> After sending my first mail I was thinking that the user is never
>>>>> going to see a POST url as I would always (ideally) be redirecting
>>>>> after POST. But (as Levi too pointed out) when validation errors
>>>>> occur, the browser shows the action bean's url.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now I am not sure if that's a big issue (for my app, not with
>>>>> Stripes). But I was just wondering if there's any way to get around
>>>>> it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Akbar
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