--- Steve Raeburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought the whole point was that there would be only one forward > > and the action would always forward to that forward? In that case, > > you could count on using the first one. > > Just thinking that if an anonymous/default ActionForward were allowed, > then > it could also be useful for other actions. In any case, it's better not > to > allow a situation where the behaviour is unspecified. > > >> You'd probably need to add a method such as getDefaultForward() > >> to retrieve it. > > > > This part seems to be adding complexity to something which was meant > > to be very simple. > > I think it might actually be possible to reduce the visible complexity > by > doing that. e.g. > > <action path="/myAction" > type="org.apache.struts.actions.SuccessAction"> > <forward path="/myPage.jsp"/> > </action> > > SuccessAction may not now be best name, but let's stick with it for the > moment. > > To be really radical, we could absorb the behaviour into Action, and > have it > check for a default ActionForward and use that, if found. That way > there's > no need for a SuccessAction at all. Then you could just do: > > <action path="/myAction" > type="org.apache.struts.action.Action"> > <forward path="/myPage.jsp"/> > </action> > > If Action actually does something useful, could we go crazy and default > the > type as well? > > <action path="/myAction"> > <forward path="/myPage.jsp"/> > </action>
There is a simpler way of doing that: <action path="/myAction" forward="/myPage.jsp"/> The only benefit of SuccessAction was that it allowed you to use the more configurable <forward> element to describe the forward so I think SuccessAction examples should include <forward> attributes that couldn't be done any other way. Having said all that, I do like that we're trying to get a simpler action/forward declaration syntax :-). > > Now that's simple. Especially if you allow a global default forward... > > <action path="/myAction"/> All we know from this is that there is an action mapped to /myAction but we don't know what handles it. Taken by itself, it looks nonsensical and would likely cause confusion. This may be a case where it's *too* simple. David > > Probably not quite so useful, but nicely minimal! > > Steve > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
