Resolved ... in the web.xml struts filter was missing the newly required
"actionPackages" parameter.

Is this new to 2.1.2 or? I currently use 2.1.1 and did not have that
problem ...

regards,
Giovanni

It is part of the codebehind plugin, that is a dependency of appfuse.



Giovanni Azua-3 wrote:
>
> Resolved ... in the web.xml struts filter was missing the newly required
> "actionPackages" parameter.
>
> Is this new to 2.1.2 or? I currently use 2.1.1 and did not have that
> problem ...
>
> regards,
> Giovanni
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Struts2 TLD files are generated by maven. I will not use maven on current
project, so how to run the same task from Ant?

Probably, the following part of pom.xml allows maven to do it:

       <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.myfaces.tobago</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-apt-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>1.0.15</version>
          <configuration>
           
uri=/struts-tags,tlibVersion=2.2.3,jspVersion=2.0,shortName=s,displayName="Struts
Tags",
           
outFile=${basedir}/target/classes/META-INF/struts-tags.tld,
            description="To make it easier to access dynamic data;
            the Apache Struts framework includes a library of custom
tags.
            The tags interact with the framework's validation and
internationalization features;
            to ensure that input is correct and output is localized.
            The Struts Tags can be used with JSP FreeMarker or
Velocity.",
            outTemplatesDir=${basedir}/src/site/resources/tags
             
            <resourceTargetPath>target</resourceTargetPath>
            <fork>false</fork>
            <force>true</force>
            <nocompile>true</nocompile>
            <showWarnings>true</showWarnings>
           
<factory>org.apache.struts.annotations.taglib.apt.TLDAnnotationProcessorFactory</factory>
            <target>1.5</target>
            <includes>
               <include>**/*.java</include>
            </includes>
          </configuration>
          <executions>
            <execution>
               <phase>compile</phase>
               <goals>
                  <goal>execute</goal>
               </goals>
          </execution>
          </executions>
       </plugin>

I googled for a solution, or at least, docs, for a couple of days, but found
nothing.
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The Ant Apt task would be a way:
http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/apt.html

musachy

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Dmitriy Kuznetsov
<heaven-seven@(protected):
>
> Struts2 TLD files are generated by maven. I will not use maven on current
> project, so how to run the same task from Ant?
>
> Probably, the following part of pom.xml allows maven to do it:
>
>        <plugin>
>           <groupId>org.apache.myfaces.tobago</groupId>
>           <artifactId>maven-apt-plugin</artifactId>
>           <version>1.0.15</version>
>           <configuration>
>
> uri=/struts-tags,tlibVersion=2.2.3,jspVersion=2.0,shortName=s,displayName="Struts
> Tags",
>
> outFile=${basedir}/target/classes/META-INF/struts-tags.tld,
>             description="To make it easier to access dynamic data;
>             the Apache Struts framework includes a library of custom
> tags.
>             The tags interact with the framework's validation and
> internationalization features;
>             to ensure that input is correct and output is localized.
>             The Struts Tags can be used with JSP FreeMarker or
> Velocity.",
>             outTemplatesDir=${basedir}/src/site/resources/tags
>
>             <resourceTargetPath>target</resourceTargetPath>
>             <fork>false</fork>
>             <force>true</force>
>             <nocompile>true</nocompile>
>             <showWarnings>true</showWarnings>
>
> <factory>org.apache.struts.annotations.taglib.apt.TLDAnnotationProcessorFactory</factory>
>             <target>1.5</target>
>             <includes>
>                <include>**/*.java</include>
>             </includes>
>           </configuration>
>           <executions>
>             <execution>
>                <phase>compile</phase>
>                <goals>
>                   <goal>execute</goal>
>                </goals>
>           </execution>
>           </executions>
>        </plugin>
>
> I googled for a solution, or at least, docs, for a couple of days, but found
> nothing.
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Musachy Barroso wrote:
>
> The Ant Apt task would be a way:
> http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/apt.html
>
> musachy
>
>

Thanks. Could you please explain some details:

1. I found source code of TLDAnnotationProcessorFactory and some related
classes at
https://issues.apache.org/struts/secure/attachment/13234/WW-1392.zip
Is it good enough to generate TLDs? Or, maybe, you know where to get some
"official" or "stable" or, maybe, latest available variant?

2. Are there any things i would better know before i start - like external
dependencies, java versions and so on?

Best regards,
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Get it from here:

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/struts/struts-annotations/

musachy

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Dmitriy Kuznetsov
<heaven-seven@(protected):
>
>
>
> Musachy Barroso wrote:
>>
>> The Ant Apt task would be a way:
>> http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/apt.html
>>
>> musachy
>>
>>
>
> Thanks. Could you please explain some details:
>
> 1. I found source code of TLDAnnotationProcessorFactory and some related
> classes at
> https://issues.apache.org/struts/secure/attachment/13234/WW-1392.zip
> Is it good enough to generate TLDs? Or, maybe, you know where to get some
> "official" or "stable" or, maybe, latest available variant?
>
> 2. Are there any things i would better know before i start - like external
> dependencies, java versions and so on?
>
> Best regards,
> Dmitriy.
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Hi Folks,

I'm trying to figure out how to return binary data from the REST plugin.

I'd like to be able to return images that are generated on the fly by
a REST request but looking at ContentTypeHandlerManager, it assumes
that we'll only ever want to return a string and so passes a
StringWriter as the output for implementers of
ContentTypeHandler.fromObject.

Am I missing something really obvious or do I need to 'tweak' this
behaviour and decide what type of writer to provide?

Thanks in advance.

Mike

Mike Watson wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to return binary data from the REST plugin.
>
> I'd like to be able to return images that are generated on the fly by
> a REST request but looking at ContentTypeHandlerManager, it assumes
> that we'll only ever want to return a string and so passes a
> StringWriter as the output for implementers of
> ContentTypeHandler.fromObject.
>
>  

At first, don't create a custom ContentTypeHander.
Just have your Controller declare a StreamResult. The default
ContentTypeHandler will drop through for result processing by XWork (as
per a ServletRedirectResult).

eg. GET /namespace/image/21

@Result("stream", type = StreamResult.class, value="image")
class ImageController {
 public InputStream getImage() {}

public String show() {
  // create the stream
  return "stream";  
}
}

See StreamResult for how to set the Content-type and other properties.

One that works, you could (potentially) register a ContentTypeHandler
for each image content type you want to return (eg. register the jpg and
png extensions). The ContentTypeHandler should do nothing except return
a result name for XWork that is mapped to a StreamResult. The image
retrieval would have to be performed in the Controller rather than the
Handler though. There is probably a bit of work to do in the plugin to
handle binary results better though.

Hope that gets you started.
Jeromy Evans

Anybody on this, please?

--
Robi


Roberto Nunnari wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'd like to use declarative Action-alias field validation for
> several Actions/methods in my S2 webpapp.
>
> S2 let's me do in struts.xml elegant things like:
> <package name="admin" extends="tiles-default" namespace="/admin">
>  ...
>  <action name="*/*" method="{2}" class="mypkg.admin.{1}Action">
>   .. my results..
>  </action>
>  ...
> </package>
>
> and then use it in my jsps:
> <s:url action="Category/create" namespace="/admin" id="newURL"/>
>
> ..but in order to add declarative validation, that would require
> a file named:
> CategoryAction/create-validation.xml
>
> but '/' is not a character allowed in filenames.
>
> How to go with this dilemma? Should I drop the slashes in
> action names and use more verbose and less flexible declarations
> in struts.xml, or is there a better way?
>
> Thank you!
>

Oops.. little typo! Correction below, in context.

Maybe using a different separator in action name, like '!'
instead of '/' could help..

But now this leads me to a more general question:
Can action names containing '*' be mapped at all to Action-alias validation?

Thank you!

--
Robi


Roberto Nunnari wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'd like to use declarative Action-alias field validation for
> several Actions/methods in my S2 webpapp.
>
> S2 let's me do in struts.xml elegant things like:
> <package name="admin" extends="tiles-default" namespace="/admin">
>  ...
>  <action name="*/*" method="{2}" class="mypkg.admin.{1}Action">
>   .. my results..
>  </action>
>  ...
> </package>
>
> and then use it in my jsps:
> <s:url action="Category/create" namespace="/admin" id="newURL"/>
>
> ..but in order to add declarative validation, that would require
> a file named:
> CategoryAction/create-validation.xml
CategoryAction-Category/create-validation.xml


>
> but '/' is not a character allowed in filenames.
>
> How to go with this dilemma? Should I drop the slashes in
> action names and use more verbose and less flexible declarations
> in struts.xml, or is there a better way?
>
> Thank you!
>

Hi guys.

From my tests here's what I found:

1) action names with '/' are not usable for declarative action-alias
validation because of java package name (and most probably filesystem )
incompatibilities

2) action names with wildcards and '!' (ie '*!*') are not usable for
declarative action-alias validation. No idea why.

3) action names with wildcards and '_' (ie '*_*') do work for
declarative action-alias validation.


So, for completeness and future reference (should it go into the wiki?),
here's how I configured struts.xml:

<action name="*_*" method="{2}"
 class="mypkg.admin.{1}Action">
 <result name="view" type="tiles">{1}View</result>
 <result name="edit" type="tiles">{1}Edit</result>
 <result name="input" type="tiles">{1}Edit</result>
 <result name="success-redirect"
 type="redirect-action">{1}_{2}</result>
</action>

and then use it in my jsps:
<s:url action="Category_create" namespace="/admin" id="newURL"/>

..and in order to add declarative validation, the above requires
a file named:
CategoryAction-Category_create-validation.xml

Best regards.

--
Robi


Roberto Nunnari wrote:
> Oops.. little typo! Correction below, in context.
>
> Maybe using a different separator in action name, like '!'
> instead of '/' could help..
>
> But now this leads me to a more general question:
> Can action names containing '*' be mapped at all to Action-alias
> validation?
>
> Thank you!
>
> --
> Robi
>
>
> Roberto Nunnari wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I'd like to use declarative Action-alias field validation for
>> several Actions/methods in my S2 webpapp.
>>
>> S2 let's me do in struts.xml elegant things like:
>> <package name="admin" extends="tiles-default" namespace="/admin">
>>  ...
>>  <action name="*/*" method="{2}" class="mypkg.admin.{1}Action">
>>   .. my results..
>>  </action>
>>  ...
>> </package>
>>
>> and then use it in my jsps:
>> <s:url action="Category/create" namespace="/admin" id="newURL"/>
>>
>> ..but in order to add declarative validation, that would require
>> a file named:
>> CategoryAction/create-validation.xml
> CategoryAction-Category/create-validation.xml
>
>
>>
>> but '/' is not a character allowed in filenames.
>>
>> How to go with this dilemma? Should I drop the slashes in
>> action names and use more verbose and less flexible declarations
>> in struts.xml, or is there a better way?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>
>
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Roberto Nunnari wrote:
>
>
> 2) action names with wildcards and '!' (ie '*!*') are not usable for
> declarative action-alias validation. No idea why.
>
This works:

<action name="manageAccount!*" method="do{1}"
class="package.ManageAccountAction">

matches the XML validation:
ManageAccountAction-manageAccount!ChangePassword-validation.xml

where doChangePassword is the name of the method to be invoked in
ManageAccountAction

The following setting is important as the ! is just a separator char
(nothing special)
# disable the old (bang) XWorks2 notation of dynamic invocation of
actions. Wildcards are still permitted
struts.enable.DynamicMethodInvocation = false

My advice is not to use this feature of Struts2 and instead keep it
simple (follow the convention of the Convention plugin, even if not in
use yet).

regards,
Jeromy Evans.

Roberto Nunnari wrote:
>> ..but in order to add declarative validation, that would require
>> a file named:
>> CategoryAction/create-validation.xml
>>
>> but '/' is not a character allowed in filenames.

Did you actually try putting the validation file at
CategoryAction/create-validation.xml (i.e.: in a subdirectory)?

If that works, or if can be made to work, is that a reasonable solution
for you?

-Dale

Hi Dale.

Thank you for your answer. See my comments below.

--
Robi


Dale Newfield wrote:
> Roberto Nunnari wrote:
>>> ..but in order to add declarative validation, that would require
>>> a file named:
>>> CategoryAction/create-validation.xml

Oops.. little typo! That should read:
CategoryAction-Category/create-validation.xml


>>>
>>> but '/' is not a character allowed in filenames.
>
> Did you actually try putting the validation file at
> CategoryAction/create-validation.xml (i.e.: in a subdirectory)?

Given the above correction, your suggestion is not possible
because the '-' character is not valid in java package names.



>
> If that works, or if can be made to work, is that a reasonable solution
> for you?
>
> -Dale
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Since it's friday, let me pose a question to the group ...

Even with rock-solid frameworks like Apache Struts, it still seems
like web application development takes longer than it should. Some
frameworks, like Ruby on Rails, speak directly to "time to market"
concerns and have been gathering many followers.

But why does web application still seem so difficult or so
time-consuming? Are there time bandits that still suck days or weeks
out of your development schedule? Are there time gremlins that
"nickel-and-dime" you every hour of every day? Is there anything more
that frameworks like Apache Struts can do to help? Or are just there
intractable problems with web development itself?

Thoughts? :)

-Ted.

Web Design :). I can code it in a few days, but getting it to look
pretty so that users don't complain, thats a b**ch.

Seriously though, one of the things we could do is a something link Suns
blueprints or a cookbook of code recepies where we have pages which show
and explain the code solutions to common problems.

I know there are some bits and bobs around, and there are some sample
webapps, but it would be nice to have thinks like the the
S2/Spring2/JPA/Ajax page at
http://struts.apache.org/2.0.11.1/docs/struts-2-spring-2-jpa-ajax.html
in one place along with some others.

Al.

Ted Husted wrote:
> Since it's friday, let me pose a question to the group ...
>
> Even with rock-solid frameworks like Apache Struts, it still seems
> like web application development takes longer than it should. Some
> frameworks, like Ruby on Rails, speak directly to "time to market"
> concerns and have been gathering many followers.
>
> But why does web application still seem so difficult or so
> time-consuming? Are there time bandits that still suck days or weeks
> out of your development schedule? Are there time gremlins that
> "nickel-and-dime" you every hour of every day? Is there anything more
> that frameworks like Apache Struts can do to help? Or are just there
> intractable problems with web development itself?
>
> Thoughts? :)
>
> -Ted.
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2008/6/20 Ted Husted <husted@(protected)>:
> But why does web application still seem so difficult or so
> time-consuming?

IMHO it's the presence of too many layers of applications. For a
simple thing like a search result you have to do (for example in
Struts 1):
- the JSP page
- the DAO
- the service that calls the DAO
- the domain objects
- the action that calls the service, and the ActionForm
- the configuration of the action
- then go again to JSP pages to link actions together

There are pieces that can be avoided, but the structure almost remains this one.
I think that approaches like NakedObjects [1] and Roma Framework [2]
could help avoiding this tedious work.
Anyway there is always some work for adaptation on your particular
case, many times they seem to be a unique case that cannot be put in
the general vision of the framework, so you stick on coding it with
simple frameworks (like Struts 1) or no frameworks at all.

Just my 2 eurocents
Antonio

[1] http://www.nakedobjects.org/
[2] http://romaframework.xwiki.com/

On Friday 20 June 2008 15:07:17 Al Sutton wrote:
> Web Design :). I can code it in a few days, but getting it to look
> pretty so that users don't complain, thats a b**ch.
>

That shouldn't be my problem. I'm a developer not a graphic designer. What
would be nice though, would be if it were easier to label and tag everything
in sight in the generated HTML and then we could simply lob the HTML over the
fence to a graphic designer - which is the route proposed by
http://www.csszengarden.com.

Just my $0.02 worth.

Regards

--- On Fri, 6/20/08, Antonio Petrelli <antonio.petrelli@(protected):
> IMHO it's the presence of too many layers of applications.

+1

The most productive environment I've worked in is Lisp (and Smalltalk, I guess). Config, code, HTML, everything was generated from Lisp. I had usable IDE assistance *everywhere*, including across layers.

I'm now playing games with annotations, even *more* games with code generation (both during build and runtime; codegen has always been one of my guilty pleasures), and ways of doing the development itself (literate programming with cross-language weaving) to reduce the amount of time I have to spend switching paradigms, but it's ultimately still in my face on *some* level, even when I don't have to think about it all the time.

The other big issue? The sheer number of options for essentially every single layer :(

> Just my 2 eurocents

Yanno, with the current exchange rate...

Dave

stanlick@(protected):
> I think a web page generator from action/model would be a huge shot in the
> arm. Of course it would need to be gussied up a bit, but doing these by
> hand is a leach on time. I recall a product back in the day that would
> generate pages from db tables.
The is a company in Brazil that has a product like this (can't remember
their name now). Met the folks last Oct and helped them see how s2 could
be leveraged as another action framework - they were using JSF and s1.
There is also J2EE Spider that is open source, and also Brazilian in origin.

Although, I have to say, this approach is great for admin or pure
data-to-tables apps, but most customs apps I write are not this
simplistic when it comes to middle and data tiers.
> Perhaps it's now open source and could be
> leveraged? And then there is the persistence nightmare -- but I have found
> Db4o solves that problem quite nicely.
>
> Scott
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Al Sutton <al.sutton@(protected):
>
>  
>> Web Design :). I can code it in a few days, but getting it to look pretty
>> so that users don't complain, thats a b**ch.
>>
>> Seriously though, one of the things we could do is a something link Suns
>> blueprints or a cookbook of code recepies where we have pages which show and
>> explain the code solutions to common problems.
>>
>> I know there are some bits and bobs around, and there are some sample
>> webapps, but it would be nice to have thinks like the the
>> S2/Spring2/JPA/Ajax page at
>> http://struts.apache.org/2.0.11.1/docs/struts-2-spring-2-jpa-ajax.html in
>> one place along with some others.
>>
>> Al.
>>
>>
>> Ted Husted wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> Since it's friday, let me pose a question to the group ...
>>>
>>> Even with rock-solid frameworks like Apache Struts, it still seems
>>> like web application development takes longer than it should. Some
>>> frameworks, like Ruby on Rails, speak directly to "time to market"
>>> concerns and have been gathering many followers.
>>>
>>> But why does web application still seem so difficult or so
>>> time-consuming? Are there time bandits that still suck days or weeks
>>> out of your development schedule? Are there time gremlins that
>>> "nickel-and-dime" you every hour of every day? Is there anything more
>>> that frameworks like Apache Struts can do to help? Or are just there
>>> intractable problems with web development itself?
>>>
>>> Thoughts? :)
>>>
>>> -Ted.
>>>
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>
>  

I would have to say: people. It doesn't matter how good frameworks
are, for "some" reason, "some" people decide to write their own
frameworks, and they do a terrible job at it. I always land on these
companies :). Some examples I have seen in my current and last
company:

1. Custom MVC (makes me want to cry)
2. Custom SMTP library
3. Custom FTP library
4. Custom persistence library
5. Custom ajax framework!!!!

musachy

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Ted Husted <husted@(protected):
> Since it's friday, let me pose a question to the group ...
>
> Even with rock-solid frameworks like Apache Struts, it still seems
> like web application development takes longer than it should. Some
> frameworks, like Ruby on Rails, speak directly to "time to market"
> concerns and have been gathering many followers.
>
> But why does web application still seem so difficult or so
> time-consuming? Are there time bandits that still suck days or weeks
> out of your development schedule? Are there time gremlins that
> "nickel-and-dime" you every hour of every day? Is there anything more
> that frameworks like Apache Struts can do to help? Or are just there
> intractable problems with web development itself?
>
> Thoughts? :)
>
> -Ted.
>
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--- On Fri, 6/20/08, Jim Kiley <jhkiley@(protected):
> I don't have a JSP debugger, and JSPs don't generate
> log statements (wow, wouldn't it be awesome if they
> could?).

AFAIK they can, although I'll often just use a println. What environment are you using that you don't have a JSP debugger, though?

> the most time-consuming part is figuring out what the
> hell the previous CF programmer wanted when he wrote
> his code.

He wanted to not be programming in ColdFusion.

Dave