Hello Joe,
        Nothing distasteful, really... it's just that, due
Struts, actionForms etc , i have been so used NOT to call
request.getParameter() that
Now, when I see that code, I don't like it...  :-)

Regards, 
        marco

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Germuska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 22 April 2005 14:28
To: Marco Mistroni; 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: Re: Struts 1.3: retrieving commands dynamically from Action

Marco:

I'm not quite sure what you find distasteful about how dispatch 
action is working; is it simply that you think the request parameter 
values are not controlled enough to be good for use as bean names?

Maybe the problem is that you've been caught where the 
DispatchChainAction class hasn't been fully updated for Struts 1.3 
and chain.  It was ported in from the struts-chain sandbox 
implementation, but it was never upgraded to deal with the idea of 
multiple catalogs.

I had mostly skipped that because I wasn't sure who was using it, and 
because I have a bit of a sense that a ChainAction is obsolete now 
that you can specify a command directly on an ActionMapping.  Maybe 
as we talk through your situation, we can work out whether the right 
solution is to "fix" DispatchChainAction, or to introduce a useful 
generic Command which does what you want.

If this isn't what bothers you about your current solution, please 
clarify.  If it is what bothers you, we can work out the possible 
routes.

Joe



At 1:52 PM +0100 4/22/05, Marco Mistroni wrote:
>Hello all,
>       I am writing a small application using struts 1.3
>And commons-chain.
>Currently, I have defined a BaseAction class which retrieves
>Commands dynamically based on the path used
>For example, calling /login will result in the action
>Retrieving the command called /login 
>          String name = mapping.getPath();
>          System.out.println("Retrieving command for action"+ name);
>         Command command = catalog.getCommand(name);
>
>That works fine (or eventually can be improved, as suggested here
>http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-commons/CommonsChainAndSpringFramework
>
>But, what if my action extends DispatchAction?
>
>Best htat I could do was to create a BaseDispatchAction that retrieves
>The command based on the parameter that triggers Dispatch's action
>specific method.
>That results in a code like this :
>
>String name = mapping.getParameter();
>String command = request.getParameter(name);
>Command command = catalog.getCommand(name);
>
>
>Question: what's the best strategy to use for retrieving commands
>For a DispatchAction?
>Are there better (I hope) alternatives?
>
>Any comments are welcome...
>
>Thanx in advance and regards
>       marco
>
>
>
>
>
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