Based on the portlet plugin proposal and some work I've been doing with
the table tags, I thought I would propose a refactor of the URL building
for struts2. Right now, struts2 has great support for taking on
incoming request and mapping it to the core elements of the framework
(i.e. namespace, action, method, etc.) in the ActionMapper interface.
It seems like we should be doing the same for building URL's. This
would allow the url tag to be completely dumb about how url's are built
up. Right now, the url tag has specific logic to determine if the
request is a portlet request or not and uses PortletUrlHelper or
UrlHelper respectively. If the url building was pluggable, we would
have a default url builder that would be configured to build either
portlet url's or regular url's. This would allow us to easily extract
the portlet support out into a separate plugin. It would also allow 3rd
part tags (like table tags) transparent, built-in portlet support with
almost no effort. We could also support other types of url's like
Restful urls. (Right now, I'm not sure how the url tag supports restful
url's)
I'll take a preliminary look at this later today, but I was curious if
anyone thoughts, pro or con regarding this.
Tom
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