On 1/6/06, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/5/06, Tamas Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I'm actually quite happy with what Struts has to offer except for the > > > deal with having to use ActionForms. I'd really like a Struts-like > > > framework but allows me to use POJOs to capture my data and provides a > > > nice way to redisplay that data back to the user if validation fails > (ie > > > a POJO that backs a form with a Data datatype will display back the > > > String they entered). > > > > > > You can bind request parameters to POJOs using Spring. > > And you can use the SpringBindingActionForm to redisplay the data to the > > user. > > From > http://www.springframework.org/docs/api/org/springframework/web/struts/SpringBindingActionForm.html > "Note this ActionForm is designed explicitly for use in request scope." > > Will not work for me.
Not out of the box. But you can extend it. We extended it, and use the subclass one in session scope. The other interesting thing is that you can't use <c:out ...> on properties exposed via a SpringBindingActionForm. That's probably because JSTL tags don't get properties using Commons Beanutils ... But if we are at the subject of binding request params to business layer objects... Probably a lot of people bind req params directly without using ActionForms just to avoid writitng all the ActionForms. How do you assure that only the allowed properties will be set in the object? Ex. we have a bean with prop1, prop2. Only prop1 is allowed to be changed, but no one can prevent someone sending a request having a prop2 parameter in it. If you bind the request params to objects directly prop2 will be set to the value set by the "misbehaving" user. I know a few solutions to this, but in all of them you will have to explicitly specify all the properties that are allowed to be set. And if you do this then it's the same as declaring these properties as a DynaActionForm or to give it to a tool that generates an ActionForm ahving all these properties. So why is it better to bind request params to business layer objects directly without using ActionForms? Tamas
