Good idea! I won't go for hacking Struts either. By the way, I heard you
guys talking about plugin so many times (I know, I am a slower learner).
Any web site I can look at. I am very interested in learnig it.
Billy Ng
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From: "Eddie Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: preserve Forward order
> Well, I'm not sure what sort of collection those are kept in. It may
> not be ordered. My (pure) guess is that those get stored in a Hashmap
> of sorts. That being the case, I don't think there's a way to determine
> their original order - you'd have to "cook something up". You could:
> - write a plugin to build an object-graph representing your
> navigation console
> - hack struts to use a different sort of collection
>
> The plugin idea has some merit to it. You'll get a reference to the
> application configuration for whichever module you're in. You could use
> that to determine your links etc. What you'd probably do is something
> along these lines:
>
> - arrive at a design for your heirarchy
> - arrive at a deisgn for an XML file that models that heirarchy
> - use digester to parse the XML and create/populate your beans
> - iterate through your beans and use some attribute of the bean to do a
> lookup in the application config and retrieve the links you need
> - set your bean properties per the action
> - stuff your "top-level" bean out into application scope so you can
> reference it later
>
> Help any?
>
> Billy Ng wrote:
>
> >I knew somebody would ask me why :-)
> >
> >Okay, I am using the String[] that returns from mapping.findForwards() to
> >generate links in the left nav bar. This way, I will only generate the
> >links for the Action I call. For example,
> >
> > <action path="/project"
> > type="com.evebill.billyng.ui.about_me.AboutMeBase"
> > name="AboutMeAction">
> > <forward name="bridge" path="/jsp/about_me/bridge.jsp"/>
> > <forward name="subway" path="/jsp/about_me/subway.jsp"/>
> > <forward name="library" path="/jsp/about_me/library.jsp"/>
> > </action>
> >
> >String[] forwards = mapping.findForwards();
> >for (int i=0; i< forwards.length; i++) {
> > ActionForward forward = mapping,findForward(forwards[i]);
> > out.print("<A
href=\""+forward.getPath()+"\">"+forward.getName()+"</A>";
> >}
> >
> >I know I am lazy, but it works very good except the sorting. That's why
I
> >want the elements of the String[] has the order I put in struts-conf.xml
> >
> >Billy Ng
> >
>
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