[WW-4353] Automatic mapping from URL to methods in action classes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 7.1.0
• Component/s: Plugin - Convention
• Labels: action convention mapping method url
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Antonio Sánchez
• Created: 28/May/14 07:02
• Updated: 11/Dec/24 07:13

Description

Provide Conventions with automatic mappings from url to methods in action classes. For instance:

/person -> com.myapp.actions.Person#execute (SUCCESS) -> person.jsp
/person-edit -> com.myapp.action.Person#edit -> person-edit.jsp
/person-submit -> com.myapp.actions.Person#submit -> person-submit.jsp || person-input.jsp

Currently, only class names are mapped:

/person-edit -> com.myapp.action.PersonEdit#execute (SUCCESS) -> person-edit.jsp

This forces a one class per action design, which is usually unacceptable.

Beyond the benefit itself of providing this feature, it would allow using Conventions for designing generic actions (generic CRUD action, for instance). Currently it is not possible and wildcard mappings is the only choice.

Discussed here:

http://markmail.org/message/luquq6wfeqbng6kj