You're right, my examples are obviously not MVC-compliant. And I fear that so might be my *real* example, the one I needed the writeMethod tag for, far too complicated to explain here ;) . Seeing there was no 'writeMethod' tag in the JSTL made me suspicious about my architecture but I still hoped that was a flaw on your side (I mean the jakarta project)... As to my taglib, it doesn't deserve to be hosted (and I thought so even when it was still potentially MVC-compliant) : I just wrote a simple "beta" version of it, hoping (once again) that you would have a real version for me. Thanks for your nice answer, anyway.
David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Husted" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 3:17 PM Subject: Re: 'Method call' taglib > Struts is designed to encourage a MVC-type architecture, and a tag like > this goes against the MVC grain :) > > Generally, the type of facts you are exposing here is something that > many people would tend to determined in the Action, and then pass along > to the presentation page, ready for output. The presentation page > shouldn't really care if the users are the same age or a particular age, > but be focussed on what it suppose to be output given the state behind > these facts. > > So the bean might have a property like usersSameAge, where the Action > had already compared user and user2. Or userMiddleAge, where the Action > had already done the math. > > If you'd like to have tag like this hosted somewhere, you might consider > taking a look at the Jakarta Taglibs subprojects. Most of our bean tags > could actually be hosted there, especially now that bean-util is in the > Commons. > > It's also important to keep an eye on the JSTL for future trends, which > is also hosted at Taglibs. > > -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. > -- Java Web Development with Struts. > -- Tel +1 585 737-3463. > -- Web http://www.husted.com/struts/ > > > GRENET David wrote: > > > > Hi everybody, > > > > I just subscribed the list, so please excuse me if what I'm writing has already been discussed. > > Using struts, I felt the need for a "bean:write"-like tag that could display not only properties but the result of any method call (with its parameters and all). Where 'bean:write' would allow : > > <bean:write name="user" property="fullName"/> instead of <%=myUserBean.getFullName()%> > > ,the 'bean:write'-like tag would allow : > > <bean:writeMethod name="user" method="isSameAge(user2)"/> or <bean:writeMethod name="user" method="isAge(42)"/> instead of <%=myUserBean.isSameAge(myOtherUserBean)%> or <%=myUserBean.isAge(42)%> > > > > Thus, I made a very simple version of such a tag where you can give as parameter : struts-beans (=belonging to one of the 'scope' collections), strings and numbers. My question is : do you plan to have such a tag in a future release ? Do you already have it ? Or is the method call idea just not what beans are for ? > > > > Thanks for your answer(s). > > > > David > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
