Great. Question: I don't want to write an action-mapping class that has properties for my event calendar action classes being used for my content management action classes. That is the problem that I see. One ActionMapping class for all your actions in the struts-config.xml. I like the idea of the hashmap so that I can access dynamic/configurable properties from a common place in all my action classes. But, at the same time I don't fill up my action mapping class with a bunch of unneccessary getter/setters that don't apply to all my action classes.
Brandon Goodin Phase Web and Multimedia PO Box 85 Whitefish MT 59937 P (406) 862-2245 F (406) 862-0354 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phase.ws -----Original Message----- From: Robert Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 10:51 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: ActionMapping enhancement? Brandon, I have a similar situation and I ended up extending ActionMapping and using the set-property in the action-mapping in the struts-config file. robert > -----Original Message----- > From: Brandon Goodin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:35 PM > To: Struts User List > Subject: ActionMapping enhancement? > > > Do any of you face this issue? and how do you deal with it? > > SCENARIO: > I have a set of classes that handle event calendars. > > The same classes can be used within one site to maintain multiple event > calendars. > > The event calendar contains multiple categories. > > I want to utilize the event calendar from various urls to display specific > event calendars: > > /do/ec/city - shows event calendar for city events > /do/ec/elksclub - shows event calendar for elks club > etc... > > But I want to provide default parameters to each of the mappings > so that the > event calendar action knows which event calendar to display without having > to pass it in through a query parameter. > > In other words I want to handle the default parameters in the > struts-config.xml. > > The only solutions both include extending the ActionMapping class > and using > the set-property in the action-mapping of the struts-config.xml: > > SOLUTIONS > > 1) Create a new module (Event Calendar module). Provide a custom extended > ActionMapping to handle properties that may be passed in for the classes > used under the module. > > 2) Extend the ActionMapping class and provide a setter/getter > that receives > a comma delimited value ([0],[1];0=key 1=value) and stores it > into a HashMap > in the extended ActionMapping class. I could then provide an > accessor method > to retrieve a particular property in the hashmap (i.e. getValue(String > key)). I could then retrieve the value from the action mapping reference > within my action class to initialize default values based on the > mapping of > the url. > > Thoughts? Corrections? > > REASONS: > Default parameters that are contained in a url querystring get > difficult to > handle. It is nice to be able to change them in one place when > needed. This > avoids having to pillage through every page that may contain a > reference to > a partical url/querystring combo and adjust the parameters rather > that just > one. > Also, if the action mapping could contain a hashmap of properties... one > could provide runtime configuration info to an Action class in order to > affect it's behavior a certain way. This promotes reusability of code. > > Brandon Goodin > Phase Web and Multimedia > PO Box 85 > Whitefish MT 59937 > P (406) 862-2245 > F (406) 862-0354 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.phase.ws > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
