Ok, after a little more code reading I think I understand a bit better. Action names are checked for duplicates only for pre-existing configuration, which probably means the XML config. If I annotate in the same class with the same action name, again that is checked. Only (and this is what I think I am doing) if I use the same Action name in different classes, no check is performed and the second name is put in a map on top of the first name ... bummer.
I think what I want is a check which class is more specialized (subclass) and only use that in the package config. So I try to put one in. If it works, I'll post again :-) Arne On 16 December 2010 15:16, Arne Stabenau <stabe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > We are developing here a fairly generic web tool, which for many of our > projects > we just want to customize a little. We are using the convention > plugin, since I have > a little dislike of XML config files and want to keep them to a minimum. > > Ideally I would like a way to just include the base project into my > classpath and when > I want to customize an action, just subclass it and implement either a > new method > for the action or overwrite some method in the original action to do > the customization. > > Well, I tried this and sometimes the subclass is used as action, > sometimes the original, > and I can't really figure out why is that. I was expecting an error > message for re-using > the same action-name (actually a warning log entry). > > -- from convention plugin --- > > //check if an action with the same name exists on that package > (from XML config probably) > 700 PackageConfig existingPkg = > configuration.getPackageConfig(pkgCfg.getName()); > 701 if (existingPkg != null) { > 702 // there is a package already with that name, check action > 703 ActionConfig existingActionConfig = > existingPkg.getActionConfigs().get(actionName); > 704 if (existingActionConfig != null && LOG.isWarnEnabled()) > 705 LOG.warn("Duplicated action definition in package > [#0] with name [#1].", pkgCfg.getName(), actionName); > 706 } > > Can it be done? With reasonable modification of the struts framework maybe? > > Thanks for reading, > > Arne > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org