I am sort if confused here, what are the advantages of this?

musachy

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Andreas Joseph Krogh
<andr...@officenet.no> wrote:
> Anyone?
> I really would like to see this included sooner than later and would 
> appreciate any feedback.
>
> On Thursday 11 December 2008 13:18:20 Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
>> Hi all!
>> One of the most usefull things about (2.0 < Struts >= 1.1) is the 
>> nested-tag-library. It allows you to do:
>>
>> <nested:form name="myForm">
>>   <nested:nest property="person.address">
>>     <nested:text property="street"/>
>>   </nested:nest>
>> </nested:form>
>>
>> And it will render the following:
>> <input type="text" name="person.address.street"/>
>>
>> Strust-2.x lacks this feature and you're responsible for producing the 
>> correct "nested-prefix" yourself.
>> Questing; Was the decition to make the Struts2-tags not work as the 
>> nested-tags made on purpose? If so, what the retional for it?
>>
>> I propose adding this functionality to the existing 2.1 src by doing the 
>> following:
>>
>> - Introduce a property in struts.properties (default false in 2.1, but shold 
>> be true or removed in future versions of Struts)
>>   struts.tag.nested_support=true
>>   If set to "true", the struts-tags will behave like the good ol' 
>> nested-tags.
>> - Modify existing sources
>>
>> The s:form equivalent of the nested-example above should be something like:
>>
>>       <s:form name="myForm">
>>         <s:push value="person.address">
>>               <s:textfield name="street"/>
>>         </s:push>
>>       </s:form>
>>
>> I believe this is quite simple to implement given that the valuestack is 
>> always available and contains everything we need.
>>
>> Is anyone working on this? Will the community accept such a patch and apply 
>> it to mainstream?
>>
>
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