[WW-2613] Type Conversion Guide doesn't describe where to put Class Name specific property files

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.11.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.1
• Component/s: Documentation
• Assignee: Jeromy Evans
• Reporter: Steve Akins
• Created: 24/Apr/08 02:28
• Updated: 28/Oct/12 22:11
• Resolved: 24/Apr/08 02:58

Description

In the Type Conversion Guide page (http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/type-conversion.html) it doesn't make it clear where to put a Class specific property file.

It looks like what is there is a copy of the javadocs from com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.XWorkConverter.

This is what's on the XWork Wiki (http://www.opensymphony.com/xwork/wikidocs/XWork%20Conversion.html) :

To create an action-level conversion, create a file called 'ActionClassName-conversion.properties' in the same location at the classpath where the Action class itself resides. Eg. if the action class name is MyAction, the action-level convertion properties file should be named 'MyAction-conversion.properties'.

This is a little better but I would make it clearer by adding something like this:

Eg. If the Action class is 'com.myapp.actions.MyAction' then the action-level conversion properties file should be named 'MyAction-conversion.properties' and put in com/myapp/actions.

This would help new people struggling to make sense of where all the various configuration files should go.

I hope that this is the right forum to post documentation suggestions. If not, happy to post elsewhere.