[Webwork-user] Session interaction

[Rickard O. <ri...@te...>]

Hey

Re: servlet agnostic session interaction. I think I have an interesting
solution to this.

Let's introduce an interface SessionAware, which contains the method
public void setSession(java.util.Map session);

When the action is created it is tested for SessionAware, and if the action
implements it, it is called. However, since we want to keep the action
servlet agnostic, it will get a Map and not the real Session. This Map will
be a proxy object that simply converts the Map calls to Session calls.

This way it should still be possible to run all actions without a servlet
environment, for example in automatic testing (e.g. regression tests), and
it should also be possible to reuse them in a Swing GUI, in which case the
session is simply a HashMap or similar.

What do you think? Some of the methods in Session are not available in Map,
but I figured it is "good enough" and one can always get to those extra
methods by using ServletAware.

Is this nirvana yet?

regards,
  Rickard