ActionForm to DAO

[Raghuveer <ra...@infotechsw.com>]

Can we send ActionForm as argument to a method in DAO class from Action
Class.

What is Best Practice ?

Thanks and Regards,
Raghuveer


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Re: ActionForm to DAO

[Laurie Harper <la...@holoweb.net>]

Raghuveer wrote:
> Can we send ActionForm as argument to a method in DAO class from Action
> Class.

Can you? yes. Should you? almost certainly not.

> What is Best Practice ?

You should keep your model decoupled from your view. Passing Struts 
artifacts like action forms into the data access layer creates 
undesirable dependencies between layers, as well as making your model 
layer harder to unit test.

Action forms are intended as an intermediate representation of form 
data, not as general DTOs. If you need to pass data into a DAO, pull it 
out of your form bean and wrap it into a model-centric, type-safe 
transfer object.

L.


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