> removing ActionError and ActionErrors, as they are the > cause of way too much confusion.
What sort of confusion? As far as I can tell they are basically the same as ActionMessages... On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 07:46:23 -0600, Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In short, ActionError is totally deprecated and should never be used. > ActionMessage is the preferred replacement for it. > > ActionErrors (a collection of ActionMessage objects) has not been > deprecated yet because it is part of the public API of the ActionForm > class (it is the return value from validate). In Struts 1.3, it is > expected that the ActionForm will get a method like "public boolean > validate(ActionContext)" in which the ActionContext both carries > references to any "input" data that the form needs for validation, as > well as being where any validation errors should be stored (rather > than being returned.) The boolean return would be a shorthand way of > indicating whether the validation passed or not. > > Once this is done, we will be able to fully deprecate ActionErrors, > and hopefully move swiftly (but not too swiftly, given the interest > in smooth migrations) towards simply removing ActionError and > ActionErrors, as they are the cause of way too much confusion. > > Joe > > At 2:10 AM +0100 2/4/05, Laurent wrote: > >Tim Christopher wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>Can anyone let me know when an ActionError should be used in place of > >>an ActionMessage, or visa versa. It seems like the ActionMessage is > >>preferred as it does not encourage markup to be placed within the > >>resources file. > >> > >>Does this mean I should always use the ActionMessage, or does the > >>ActionError come in useful for certain situations? > > > >Yes. ActionError is deprecated. > >http://struts.apache.org/api/org/apache/struts/action/ActionError.html > > > >However you may still use 'ActionErrors' to store you > >'ActionMessage's that represent an error, but note that > > saveErrors(HttpServletRequest, ActionErrors) > >is deprecated in favour of > > saveErrors(HttpServletRequest, ActionMessages) > >(which still has 'Errors' in it's name!) > >This means you probably have to call it with > > saveErrors(request, (ActionMessages)actionErrors) > >(as ActionErrors is a subclass of ActionMessages anyway!) > >(ActionError was also a subclass of ActionMessage) > > > > > >All this seems odd, so please correct me if I'm wrong. > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Joe Germuska > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://blog.germuska.com > "Narrow minds are weapons made for mass destruction" -The Ex > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
