Custom Tag Attribute Names

["Craig R. McClanahan" <Cr...@eng.sun.com>]

One comment I've heard is that the attribute "name" is used in Struts
somewhat inconsistently (both internal to Struts and as compared to
other tags like <jsp:getProperty>).  What would you think of using the
attribute "name" when you are talking about a JavaBean in some
appropriate scope, and use "property" when you are talking about a
property of that bean?

Doing this, you would do something like this for the login page of the
example application:

    <struts:form ... name="logonForm" ...>
        ...
        <struts:text property="username" .../>
        ....
    </struts:form>

instead of the current approach:

    <struts:form ... name="logonForm" ...>
        ...
        <struts:text name="username" .../>
        ....
    </struts:form>

What do you think?

Craig

Re: Custom Tag Attribute Names

["Hutchison, Jeff" <jh...@inst.strykercorp.com>]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:

> One comment I've heard is that the attribute "name" is used in Struts
> somewhat inconsistently (both internal to Struts and as compared to
> other tags like <jsp:getProperty>).  What would you think of using the
> attribute "name" when you are talking about a JavaBean in some
> appropriate scope, and use "property" when you are talking about a
> property of that bean?
> 
> Doing this, you would do something like this for the login page of the
> example application:
> 
>     <struts:form ... name="logonForm" ...>
>         ...
>         <struts:text property="username" .../>
>         ....
>     </struts:form>
> 
> instead of the current approach:
> 
>     <struts:form ... name="logonForm" ...>
>         ...
>         <struts:text name="username" .../>
>         ....
>     </struts:form>
> 
> What do you think?

Good idea, it's consistent with the concept and makes it easier to think
of forms in the correct "struts" way.
 
> Craig


-jh

-- 
Jeff Hutchison <jh...@inst.strykercorp.com>
Stryker Instruments Kalamazoo, MI