[WW-4496] better reconciliation of static url mappings

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.20
• Fix Version/s: 7.0.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: adam brin
• Created: 29/Apr/15 20:27
• Updated: 22/Oct/22 13:39

Description

the struts static url mappings are great for simplifying URL paths and including "data" in the URL structures. We're having collisions that are causing problems though:

eg.

class1:
@Namespace("/dataset/")
...
@Action("{id}")

...
class3:
@Namespace("/dataset")
...
@Action("columns/{id}")

In this case, Class1's mapping seem to "own" everything under /dataset regardless of what other classes like (class2) define. It'd be nice if struts could, as it scans all of the namespaces and actions, evaluated left-to-right non-programatically specified values ahead of those that are variables. E.g. /dataset/columns/{id} would be evaluated prior to matching /dataset/{id}