So are you saying that overriding an action means also adding a jsp at that level?
- john -----Original Message----- From: Rich Feit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:44 PM To: Beehive Developers Subject: Re: inheriting pages in page flows Hi John, I agree that this would be ideal, but I don't think it's possible (should have made it clear in the original email). There's no way at build time to know for certain whether a local path is "present", and there's also no way at runtime to know if it's "present" beyond trying to hit it and looking for a 404 result. This is true for JSPs as well as for other arbitrary Servlet paths. Rich John Rohrlich wrote: >A good start Rich, but I'd like to see some additional behavior. > >Allow action overrides to use pages local to the overridden actions page >flow directory if the page is not found local to the overriding class. >This should work for n levels of inheritance. If class B extends class >C, and class A extends class B, and both extending classes override the >same action then you would first look for a jsp in A's directory. If you >didn't find the jsp you would look in B's directory and then finally C's >directory. > >- john > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Rich Feit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 11:13 AM >To: Beehive Developers >Subject: inheriting pages in page flows > >Hi all, > >I'd like some design feedback here. >http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEEHIVE-400 deals with a much-asked > >question: if you have a page flow that inherits from another page flow, >how can you also inherit pages from the base page flow? Currently, >there's no good way to do it, which is an obvious hole. My thought is >to do something really simple (from the user's point of view :) ), like >have a class-level annotation attribute: > > inheritLocalPaths=true > >This would cause local paths in *inherited* actions to be used in the >context of the current page flow. I think this might be sufficient, and > >even if it turns out it's not, it seems like a good start. Any >thoughts/comments on this? > >Thanks, >Rich > > > > >
