"Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, PILGRIM, Peter, FM wrote: > > > > > > > Am I missing something, or can't you just say: > > > > > > <controller processorClass="com.mycompany.MyRequestProcessor"/> > > > > > > and be done with it? > > > > Craig > > > > I certainly could do that and I am doing that, but I want to > > force the custom request processor, > > because I am package Struts as part of Expresso? > > > > How about defining an ExpressoPlugIn that configures everything you need > at startup time? PlugIns run after the struts-config.xml file has been > digested, but before the configuration information is frozen, so they can > do things like: > > ModuleConfig modConfig = > servlet.getServletContext().getAttribute(Globals.APPLICATION_KEY); > ControllerConfig contConfig = modConfig.getControllerConfig(); > contConfig.setProcessorClass("com.mycompany.MyRequestProcessor"); > > This technique can be used for pretty much any sort of modifications to > the configured information.
However, it doesn't solve Peter's problem, it just moves it. Instead of the customer having to set a custom request processor in their struts-config.xml, now they have to set a plugin. > > Another alternative (recently added in the 1.1 tree) is to add some > Digester rules that are included in the set used to parse > struts-config.xml (see the "rulesets" init parameter on ActionServlet). > If you couple that with turning validation off, you can even add > additional configuration elements and attributes into the standard config > file -- I think the STXX folks are planning to take advantage of this to > define their processing pipelines inside an <action> element. This option also moves the problem, but this time it's moved to web.xml instead of struts-config.xml. ;-) I really don't see a way of doing what Peter wants without modifying the code. -- Martin Cooper > > Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
