Hi to y’all,
I’m trying to integrate Pajes (www.pajes.org), a Servlet Presentation
Framework, with Struts. The idea is to use Struts’ MVC separation (Action,
ActionForms, ActionServlet, etc…) WITHOUT using Struts’ presentation tools
(i.e. no JSP, ergo no JSP Tags), just plain XHTML templates (in conjunction
with the Pajes framework I just mentioned).
I’m not interested in an XSLT-based solution (for now).
The problem I’ve come across:
For connecting with Pajes, I’ve thought about a Servlet (kind of a “View”
Dispatcher) that should be the “entry point” to all Pajes-related requests.
Then, one would do things like this:
package org.gn.samples.strutspajes.login;
. . .
public class MyFirstAction extends Action {
public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping actionMapping . . .) {
MyFirstActionForm theActionForm = (LoginActionForm) actionForm;
if (. . .) {
. . .
return actionMapping.findForward("/some_other_typically_mapped_page");
} else {
. . .
ActionForward af =
new PajeViewActionForwardFactory.generate("f.q.view.gen.pajes.classname”,
"theTemplateFilename.html",
request);
return af;
}
}
}
… where the generated ActionForward object points to the aforementioned
Servlet, including on that URL the corresponding parameters. Examples:
“/PajeDispatcher?template=Login.html&factory=org.gn.samples.strutspajes.login.LoginPageView"
(in case this is the default web application)
“/webappname/PajeDispatcher?template=ProductCatalog.html&factory=org.gn.samples.strutspajes.login.NavigateProductCatalogPageView"
(in case this is not the default web application and the name is “webappname”)
This solves the problem of “delegating” from Struts to Pajes.
HOWEVER, I have not solved yet the data access method part. I MUST
BE ABLE TO RECOVER THE APPROPRIATE ActionForm object FROM THAT Servlet
(actually, in a factory class, but I don’t want to bother you with all
the details) so that the view-generating class can “paint”, WITHOUT
REPLICATING THE ActionForm Management (especially, the scopes management)
ALREADY PERFORMED BY Struts. HOW CAN I DO THAT???
(1) Is there some method (+ class) that, given an Action class (/classname),
returns the ActionForm object its currently associated to? (if any)
(2) What’s the minimal information that one needs to retrieve an Action’s
corresponding ActionForm object?
(3) How can I do it from an ordinary Servlet?
Note that I’m trying to avoid passing it through the Session. My initial
idea was to take advantage of the classes behind the tag libs that do this,
but from what I’ve seen so far (I mean, its source code), that is not
possible (the code is too tied to a JSP environment).
This is my first “effort”. Therefore, I’m not worried about being able to
do EVERYTHING that can be done through the tag libs. For now, the only
thing I look forward is to be able to recover the appropriate ActionForm
object associated to that Action from where redirection took place
(ActionForward, that is).
I’d really appreciate any thoughts on this matter.
Thanks everybody,
Freddy.
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