The REST plugin seems to address the vanilla cases of restful URLs: - /hair/bears/furbolg - /hair/bears/furbolg/1
or even my preferred form - /hair/bears/furbolg/firbolg-1 If I have a FurbolgController (or FurbolgAction) and define the right methods, it works like magic. However, following the RESTFul logic of having sensible URLs for every useful resource, how can I use it for a put to, say, replace a certain field only of all the items of interest in a range or set of ranges: - /hair/bears/furbolg/12-14+16-18/coat-color It seems to me I should be able to specify the single value in quotes as the JSON body for that one and pass it to my business logic rather than having to operate at the record level and truck around all the data I don't care about to do the field-level updates. The example is contrived but field-level updates are useful in edit-in-place AJAX scenarios. I know I can coax anything I want out of Spring MVC for this kind of job. It allows for arbitrary mappings from URL elements to controller method parameters when matching URLs to controllers and methods (similar to ASP.NET MVC, well, vice versa really). How would I do it in Struts? Am I beyond the capabilities of the REST plugin? Outside the vibe? I checked the list archives for the past year and looked at the examples on the web but didn't see anything that looked like it had the potential to address this. However, Struts is a very clever framework and maybe the pieces of the solution are sitting in front of me and I just haven't recognized where they fit together. Anybody want to clue me in? Ralph --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
