But I'm ready for bed now, so I will have to sleep on it before I could say just what "write" type methods I think there would need to be.
Joe
At 11:16 PM -0500 11/30/04, Ted Husted wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:15:51 -0600, Joe Germuska wrote:ÝI've been thinking for a while that we should stop storing so many Ýthings directly in the ServletContext and instead, define a Ý"Struts" object which would hold these things. ÝI've mentioned this Ýobliquely a few times and not gotten much response, so maybe no one Ýelse likes the idea. ÝOr maybe it's been too oblique. ÝBenefits of Ýsomething like this would be reducing dependencies on the Servlet ÝAPI and providing a better environment for testing.
Like it? I implemented it two years nine months ago :)
* http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/struts/trunk/src/share/org/apache/struts/config/ConfigHelperInterface.java?rev=48889&view=markup
It's also mentioned on the proposed updates to the Roadmap.
* http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=29427
under the moniker "ViewContext".
I was going to try and work on updating the website tonight, but my flight was delayed, and I might not get to it.
I do think we should be passing a Struts API bean out to the view, which could also include a context for arbitrary properties.
-Ted.
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