[jira] Issue Comment Edited: (WW-2392) Handle additional actionName formats for ActionChainResult

["James Holmes (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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jholmes edited comment on WW-2392 at 5/28/08 10:07 AM:
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The "patch" looks good and I am all for simplifying configuration. This will have to be applied to XWork though as the ActionChainResult class is part of that codebase.

      was (Author: jholmes):
    The "patch" looks good and I am all for simplifying configuration. This will have to be applied to XWork though as the ActionChainResult is part of that codebase.
  
> Handle additional actionName formats for ActionChainResult
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: WW-2392
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-2392
>             Project: Struts 2
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core Actions
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.11
>            Reporter: Richard  T. Feak
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: Future
>
>         Attachments: SmartActionChainResult.java
>
>
> Currently it's simple to define a chain result for an action in the same package, with a method of execute(). However, to chain to an action in a different namespace, or a method other then execute() requires additional XML markup that seems unnecessary.
> We already have a defined string format for referring to namespaces and methods. Could we use that format to simplify the definition of chain results?
> For example:
> <result name="success" type="chain">foo!bar</result> - Should refer to the bar() method in action "foo" in the same namespace.
> <result name="success" type="chain">/foo/bar</result> - Should refer to the "bar" action in the "foo" namespace
> <result name="success" type="chain">/foo/bar!baz</result> - Should refer to the baz() method on the "bar" action" in the "foo" namespace.
> As you can see, this format is much more intuitive and concise when compared against the current syntax for defining chain results.
> I'm assuming that somewhere there is common code for parsing such strings. it should be easy to re-use that code to prepopulate the variables in the ActionChainResult correctly.

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