Does XDoclet allow for _runtime_ generation of ActionForms based on information only available at runtime? >From what I saw it looked rather like a design time utility (?).
Ive noticed quite a few folk looking for a way of doing ActionForms at runtime (the DynaActionForm is alas still a design time convienience as you have to configure the fields in xml at design time) and I hope that the struts developers will strongly consider putting it high up on their wishlist for 1.2 (I gather the 1.1 featurelist is somewhat closed already?). I have a feeling I will be needing this myself before too long, but havent yet had a chance to look at what would be involved. -----Original Message----- From: Manfred Wolff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 19:27 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: AW: dynamicaly generated forms and ActionForms Hi. We use XDoclet to generate our EJB's (CMP). There is also a tag to generate the struts form. With XDoclet you describe your bean with javadoc commentarys: * @ejb:bean type="CMP" * name="TelekomVerbindung" * view-type="local" * use-soft-locking="true" * cmp-version="2.x" * primkey-field="id" * * @ejb:transaction type="Required" * * @ejb:interface * local-class="de.neusta.fortuna.ejb.standort.TelekomVerbindungLocal" * local-extends="de.neusta.fortuna.ejb.base.FortunaBaseEntLocal" * * @jboss:table-name "ST_TELEKOMMUNIKATION" * @jboss:create-table "${jboss.create.table}" * @jboss:remove-table "${jboss.remove.table}" * @jboss:tuned-updates "${jboss.tuned.updates}" * @jboss:read-only "${jboss.read.only}" * * @struts:form * name="TelekomVerbindung" */ You see the last two rows are the declaration for the struts form. In this case XDoclet generates a struts form with all bean-attributes. Nice isn't it. Greetings Manfred -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Im Auftrag von [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 8. Juli 2002 09:26 An: Struts Users Mailing List Betreff: Re: dynamicaly generated forms and ActionForms Did somebody have a starting point to deal whith this use case? Gilles Vandaele "Craig R. McClanahan" To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: Subject: Re: dynamicaly generated forms and ActionForms 05/07/2002 20:06 Please respond to Struts Users Mailing List On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 15:39:41 +0200 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: dynamicaly generated forms and ActionForms > > I need to dynamicaly generate a jsp form and retrieve values in a bean. The > elements of the form must be generated based on a glossary (xml shema) and > on values retrieved from a database (labels, layout, default value, > javascript validation, ActionForm validation,...). > > Is DynaActionForm the right solution, how can I use it, can I find an > example? > Is it a good way to give the same mane to all the elements and use a > property (same mame) of type Array to get the values automatically. > The standard implementation of DynaActionForm is not going to help you deal with this use case. It still expects the set of properties for a particular form bean to be declared in the struts-config.xml file at application startup time. Supporting this more general notion of dynamic forms would be a very popular enhancement. However, it's a little late to try to get this into a 1.1 final release, so standard support will have to wait for some future version. > > There must be someone already gone through. > > > > > Gilles Vandaele > Craig -- 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]> -- 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]>
