Re: [Actionframework-users] parameters to output-variable methods

[Petr T. <Pet...@pi...>]

 > is there any way to pass parameters to the methods that
 > output-variable defined values call?  for eg:
 >
 > <output-variable name="objectList" component="objectHandler"
 > value="getObjectList(Context context)"/>

Sure! You can use $variables in method calls in <in/output-variable>s:

<output-variable name="objectList" component="objectHandler"
                  value="getObjectList($context)"/>

....supposing that $context is already in the context.

 > if not, then i really think there should be.  seems to me that the
 > Context is (almost) indispensable for most of these calls.  now, i
 > suppose one could work around this a bit by making sure the component
 > is marked as 'session', then use the component itself that to hold
 > all of the other data pieces one might need for a request.  but by
 > not having any defined interfaces between the main servlet
 > (ActionServlet) and the component, there is no way to easily setup
 > any 'session' data by passing it to the constructor or some other
 > init() method.  so, this means that any shared data would need to
 > come from some static or singleton mechanism, which limits its
 > flexibility.  make sense?

Components created by DefaultInstantiator can have constructor with
a parameter ActionServlet (or its subclass), so you can pass the servlet
reference to the component.

Petr
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