Hi Andreas,
The perfect place to filter the URLs is before they reach the
Container at all.
The next-best place is within a custom ActionMapper as Jelmer
suggested as that's what it's designed for. I don't think you'll gain
much performance filtering before the ActionMapper and it will confuse
the architecture a little.
Modifying the default ActionMapper to accept a property that specifies
an exclusion pattern may be a good idea.
The properties in struts.xml are available by dependency injection in
objects created by Struts2, but the filter is too soon to use that
feature. Instead you'll have to get a reference to the xwork
Container and ask it for the property:
String pattern =
configuration.getContainer().getInstance(String.class,
"struts.action.url_exclude_pattern");
The Configuration instance is available from the
ConfigurationManager. The ConfigurationManager is created during the
InitOperations once when the filter initializes. This is when the
configuration is first read/provided (but it may be re-read/provided
later). The ConfigurationManager is available from the Dispatcher,
which is available in the PrepareOperations used by the
StrutsPrepareFilter.
To access the configuration in your own version of the
StrutsPrepareFilter, you'll have to replace the filter and
PrepareOperations with a version that checks the URL and configuration
before creating the ActionContext.
Configuration configuration =
dispatcher.getConfigurationManager().getConfiguration();
StrutsPrepareFilter will still need to chain to the next filter, so
you'll also have to modify the StrutsExecuteFilter so it doesn't run
but does chain to its next filter. Doesn't seem very elegant.
Hope that gets you started.
regards,
Jeromy Evans
On 27/02/2009, at 7:10 PM, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
On Friday 27 February 2009 08:50:16 Jelmer Kuperus wrote:
I implemented something similarar while back by implementing a custom
actionmapper. You can then set that one as the default by changing a
property
It allowed me to get the behaviour i wanted without changing any
struts code. I remember there being some gotchas tho.
Yea, I was hoping to avoid having to maintain my own implementation
just for this feature so I'm hoping someone steps up and explains
how the struts2-code works with respect to accessing the config-
properties:-)
Personally i think exclusion would be a usefull feature
Good:-)
I see quite a lot of other improvements struts2 could benefit from,
especially the taglibs, and will post a list soon of things me and
my company would like to implement.
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