[CAUSEWAY-1282] Extend @ActionLayout annotation with a routeTo attribute.

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.10.0
• Component/s: Applib (programming model)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Daniel Keir Haywood
• Created: 23/Dec/15 14:55
• Updated: 29/Apr/22 15:35
• Resolved: 29/Apr/22 15:35

Description

This would extend the work started in ISIS-666 (the RoutingService), and extended in ISIS-1286, the idea being to allow the routing strategy to be defined at a more fine-grained level with the action, rather than globally in a service.

Suggest a new attribute "routeTo()" attribute on @ActionLayout, eg:

@ActionLayout(
routeTo=RouteToThis.class
)
public void foo()

{ ... }

where:

public class RouteToThis implements ActionRouter {
public boolean canRoute(Object original);
public Object route(Object original);
}

If present then the RoutingService would instantiate and delegate to this router object.

Note that the attribute is on @ActionLayout rather than @Action because this is a UI concern only.