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Struts 1 & JSON
Hi All,
I am using struts 1. How can I use JSON with that?
Regds
Priya Khanna
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Re: Struts 1 & JSON
Posted by "Frank W. Zammetti" <fz...@omnytex.com>.
Hi Priya,
Struts 1.x doesn't natively understand JSON as either input or output.
That doesn't stop you from doing it yourself though.
The output side is easy: just generate it, either in an Action (probably
not a great idea) or in a JSP (preferred). For instance, here's a JSP
from a prod app I have here at work that does it:
<%@ page language="java" import="java.util.*,com.company.app.*" %>
if (company == null) {
company = "DEFAULT";
}
CompanyTabs companyTabs = TabWorker.getTabsForCompany(company);
%>
{
"selectTab" : "<%=companyTabs.getSelectedTab()%>",
"tabs" : [
<%
List tabs = companyTabs.getTabs();
for (Iterator it = tabs.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
Tab tab = (Tab)it.next();
%>
{
"label" : "<%=tab.getLabel()%>", "id" : "<%=tab.getId()%>",
"disabled" : "<%=tab.getDisabled()%>", "href" : "<%=tab.getHref()%>",
"onClick" : "<%=tab.getOnclick()%>"
}<%if(it.hasNext()){%>,<%}%>
<%
}
%>
]
}
After you get done yelling at me for using scriplets :) ... what this is
actually for isn't terribly important, but just for completeness, it's the
response to a request (AJAX) for the definition of what tabs are seen in
the app based on what company the user has selected to work with. But
that aside, as you can see it's just a simple, plain old JSP that happens
to be generating JSON rather than HTML. It's that simple.
If your interested in auto-generation of JSON by the way, it's probably a
bit trickier... you could possibly lift the code I wrote for S2, it might
be similar enough that you could hack it... here's the JIRA ticket with
code attached:
https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-1330
Like I said, it's for S2, but at least conceptually the Results might be
adaptable to S1 as either Commands or a RequestProcessor alteration.
On the input side it's trickier... if your using 1.3.x, you should be able
to write a Command to parse the incoming JSON, after recognizing it as
such, and poplating the form. If your not using 1.3.x, you could alter
the RequestProcessor to do this... alternatively, if you don't want to
modify Struts itself, don't count on form auto-population and instead
parse the JSON in your Action (probably create your own base Action, call
is JSONAction, and extend your own Actions from that so that the JSON
parsing is in one place). Another alternative is a filter, but since you
can't add request parameters on the fly, you'll have to add them as
attributes and again forgoe auto-form population. Yet another approach is
a filter that throws a redirect after parsing the JSON and appending all
the values as a query string to the original URL... that would have the
effect of "restarting" the request processing chain, but now your JSON
data is request parameters and Struts can go on happily doing its normal
thing.
HTH,
Frank
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On Fri, January 12, 2007 8:26 am, Priya Khanna wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am using struts 1. How can I use JSON with that?
>
> Regds
> Priya Khanna
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Re: Struts 1 & JSON
Posted by "Frank W. Zammetti" <fz...@omnytex.com>.
I too have used the code at json.org, but this looks like a nice extension
of that. Thanks for pointing it out Nuwan!
Frank
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Author of "Practical Ajax Projects With Java Technology"
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On Fri, January 12, 2007 4:53 pm, Nuwan Chandrasoma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use JSON Lib project hosted in http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/ and
> convert my beans and list to json string, and then write it to the
> response
> and return null from the action class., after that its ajax in my page.
>
> eg. code in my action class.
>
> JSONArray jsonOrderArray = JSONArray.fromObject(displayList);
>
> PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
>
> logger.debug("Order list is:" + jsonOrderArray.toString());
>
> out.print(jsonOrderArray.toString());
>
> return null;
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nuwan
>
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> Hi All,
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> I am using struts 1. How can I use JSON with that?
>
> Regds
> Priya Khanna
>
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Re: Struts 1 & JSON
Posted by Nuwan Chandrasoma <my...@gmail.com>.
Hi,
I use JSON Lib project hosted in http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/ and
convert my beans and list to json string, and then write it to the response
and return null from the action class., after that its ajax in my page.
eg. code in my action class.
JSONArray jsonOrderArray = JSONArray.fromObject(displayList);
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
logger.debug("Order list is:" + jsonOrderArray.toString());
out.print(jsonOrderArray.toString());
return null;
Thanks,
Nuwan
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From: "Priya Khanna" <Pr...@infosys.com>
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Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 1:26 PM
Subject: Struts 1 & JSON
Hi All,
I am using struts 1. How can I use JSON with that?
Regds
Priya Khanna
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