Have you considered using an include? You can call a json-result-type action with it or switch to some other fragment result if needed. Perhaps it's quick and dirty compared with creating a custom tag but it seems to me it would be a lot easier to implement.
- Aaron On Jan 3, 2011 6:50 AM, "Jim Talbut" <jim.tal...@groupgti.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I keep needing to put the JSON equivalent of an expression into a JSP page to be used by client side javascript. > This is done during the evaluation of the JSP, it's not AJAX. > > At the moment I'm doing it by creating a special "get" method on the action, but that's not nice - the action shouldn't need to know that I want the representation in JSON. > > I've started looking at creating an alternative tag to do the job, but it would be pretty much a complete copy of the property tag, but with an additional "escape"-type property to specify that the result should be JSON. > It's slightly more complicated than that because the normal escapes should be applied afterwards too. > > Question: Is this something that should be implemented in the base property tag as an enhancement to struts itself, or should I just copy the property tag and get on with my life? > > Thanks > Jim
