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tm_jee resolved WW-770:
Resolution: Won't Fix
Validation should be aware of namespace that action lives in
Key: WW-770
URL:
Project: Struts Action 2
Type: Improvement
Components: Actions, Misc
Versions: WW 2.1.7
Reporter: Alex Shneyderman
Assignee: tm_jee
Priority: Trivial
Fix For: Future
Currently validation forum is unaware of the namespace that the action lives in. It is extremly useful to enable this awarnese, whne actions are being reused and are named exactly the same way in different namespaces. Say we have an application that is editing a few different entityes. We write one generic Save action. We configure pacakges like so:
<package name="com.mycompany.entity1" namespace="/section/entity1">
<action name="save" class="com.mycompany.actions.Save" />
</package>
<package name="com.mycompany.entity2" namespace="/section/entity2">
<action name="save" class="com.mycompany.actions.Save" />
</package>
to access the actions from the web one would submit the URL / or / to save entity1 or entity2. Validation however is different for
each of the entities and there is no way to specify validation file that will differentiate
between the two saves. Note also that changing the name of the save action is not desitrable,
since if you have some kind of automation script to generate the URL you want the config to
be as uniform as possible.
what would be useful is if we could specify validation files for save like so:
Save-%section%entity1-validation.xml
and
Save-%section%entity1-validation.xml
here is a releveant discussion of the forum: