Meh, while I think turning this into something event-based is way overkill, I wouldn't turn to chaining, either. I'd probably just use an interceptor, AOP, or any other "around"-type solution.
I view actions as something a user can hit (insert mom-joke here), not as a chunk of general-purpose functionality, even though in the end it'd act the same--it's more of a semantic/cognitive difference. YMMV :) Dave On Jul 31, 2011 2:27 PM, "Chris Pratt" <thechrispr...@gmail.com> wrote: > This sounds like one of the very few legitimate uses of the chain result > type. Check out http://struts.apache.org/2.0.14/docs/chain-result.html > (*Chris*) > On Jul 31, 2011 9:50 AM, "Marcus Bond" <mar...@marcusbond.me.uk> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> >> Say I have a form where user can carry out a product search which hits an >> action and returns a list of results - easy.. however in response to the >> user changing their search criteria I want to also generate some search >> terms which would be passed through to Ebay, google ads etc.. but not > within >> my action which is designed with one purpose in mind - to search my db > (the >> action doesn't know about google ads, ebay, AWS or any other thing that >> comes along). Gut reaction here is to fire an event (say product changed) >> and have some listeners do the work of generating the relevant google / > ebay >> stuff and storing this in the users session. >> >> >> >> Firstly, is this how most of you would go about it? >> >> >> >> Secondly in terms of the view side of things, whilst normally my action >> would simply return 'success' I may want to tweak the view depending upon >> which external source returned the best results (currently I use tiles but > I >> don't think I can or should dynamically switch the result after my action >> has processed).. How would you tackle this? By adding logic to the tile / >> template jsp or some other means? >> >> >> >> Can any of you share experiences of using Struts in apps like this and how >> you tackled similar scenarios or if maybe another framework is more > suited? >> You'll have to bear with me here since all my work thus far has had no > need >> to collaborate data from multiple sources in one page. >> >> >> >> Regards and thanks in advance, >> >> Marcus >>
