Thanks Gabriel for the valuable inputs On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Gabriel Belingueres <belingue...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 2012/9/4 Umesh Awasthi <umeshawas...@gmail.com>: > > I am in process to create a plugin and i need to pass provider class as > > well some other properties to the plugin bean class. > > though i can define them in side the plugin's xml file but want these > > properties to be configurable. > > I know of several ways of doing this: > > 1) Defining the property as usual with its own setter/getter in the > plugin class. This will let you configure it with the <param> tag when > you define your interceptor stack. You should provide a sensitive > default value in case no <param> tag is present. > > 2) Declaring a <bean> for injecting an instance of some class using > the IoC container provided with Struts. In your plugin you need to > annotate with @Inject the setter method that will be called to inject > the instance. > > 3) Declare a <constant> that will specify the *name* of a bean to > inject. This is what is annotated with @Inject. > Also you need to inject an instance of the Container class. > In the init() method of the plugin, just call: > container.getInstance(MyClass.class, myInjectedString); > to get the proper instantiation of a given type. This is most useful > when you have different strategies of accomplish some functionality > and you can choose one by declaring a constant. > > 4) Idem 3), but instead of declaring a global <constant> you use a > property as in 1), then you can have different interceptor stacks with > different values assigned to this particular functionality. > > > Since struts.xml loads after the plugin loading so i can not define the > > properties there, any suggestion how to accomplish this ? > > The only constraint I know of is that a plugin must not depend on (nor > interfere with) definitions done in other plugin. > > HTH, > Gabriel > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org > > -- With Regards Umesh Awasthi http://www.travellingrants.com/
