[Actionframework-users] ANNOUNCE: ActionServlet 0.94beta

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

Hello,
I'm pleased to announce a new release of ActionServlet with the largest
number of new implemented features (requested by the community) in its
history. Due to many changes in the code this is a "beta" release.

I would like to ask you for upgrade tests (please read the "Upgrading
hints" below) and report any problems, bugs or unexpected behaviour to
the mailing list. Thank you!


ActionServlet 0.94beta
(http://www.actionframework.org)

Highlights
----------
* added new ActionConfig elements: <pre-invoke>, <post-invoke>,
     <validate>, <include-template> - see Specification for more info

* <on-exception>s may be nested also in <components> and have a new
     optional attribute "rethrow-if" to enable exception propagation,
     ConversionException may be now also processed by <on-exception>s

* <property> element may now contain <input-variable>s

* <template> names may now contain regexps (like ".*"), so that
     <invoke>s and <output-variable>s can be set for several templates
     in one place

* arbitrary order of <invoke>s and <output-variable>s is possible

* added optional 'type' attribute in <action> element to allow action
     selection based on the type of request ("http.get", "http.post", ...)

* added methods to ActionServlet: getContext(), requestCleanup(),
     destroyComponent(), getTypeHandler()

* See http://www.actionframework.org/doc/whatsnew.txt for more details


Upgrading hints
---------------
ActionServlet 0.94beta comes with several small compatiblity issues:

- return type of ActionServlet.getProperty(...) methods changed to
     Object -> quick fix: change calls:
     servlet.getProperty(...) to servlet.getProperty(...).toString()

- access moddifiers of most previously "protected" ActionServlet methods
     changed to "public" -> subclasses must also use "public" modifier

- ActionServlet.invokeMethod() throws Exception instead of
     InvocationTargetException -> widen "throws" clause too

- beforeInvoke(), afterInvoke(), invokeMethod(), beforeConversion(),
     conversionError(), getActionMethod(), unassignedAction()),
     onException() and onReturn() methods of ActionServlet had 'form'
     parameter, but now are passsed 'requestType' parameter instead and
     values of 'form' and 'action' parameters are concatenated by '.':
       1) form="form1", action="submit" -> action="form1.submit"
       2) no 'form', action="withNoForm" -> action="withNoForm"
     -> if you have used 'form' parameter in you overridden methods, you
     have to verify if your code is correct


Hope you will like it! :)

-Petr
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