No not backwards at all. It is exactly how inheritance works. A child is free to override in case it wants to provide its own implementation of something.
Sure a child package inherits things from the parent. With that in mind a child can override settings. e.g child says given me you settings, except namespace="/x". When a child does that, all this actions appear under /contextName/x. A child can also redefine the interceptor stack for a package. Say the interceptor stack for the parent package includes some security interceptor and is under namespace "/secure", and child is free to redefine that interceptor stack for the package so it does not to include the security interceptor and say the namespace ="/demo". A child can do this without redefining all the actions again. In this light it would appear to be a bug, that "default-class-ref" couldn't be overriden by the children. Matthew Payne newton.dave wrote: > > --- "matt.payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Chris Pratt wrote: >> > On Jan 10, 2008 1:15 PM, matt.payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> It would be a ton more useful if it could provide the default class >> for >> >> actions defined in a abstract parent package, where the implementation >> >> class for those actions was not specified. >> > I'm not sure what you mean by the "abstract parent package", otherwise >> > that seems like exactly what it does. If you create a package in >> > struts.xml and define the default-class-ref, then create another >> > package that extends the first, it should inherit the >> > default-class-ref from the parent package. >> My expectation would be that child package would override >> "default-class-ref" and have that applied/substituted to the actions >> defined in the parent. > > Isn't that sort of backwards to how inheritance works? A child package > defines behavior for it and its children, not its parents. > > d. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/http%3A--struts.apache.org-dtds-struts-2.0.dtd-needs-to-be-updated-tp14742352p14794878.html Sent from the Struts - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
