Re: Trouble calling methods in a Struts 2 action

You were right, the Struts list was the place to ask.  The trick is to 
use the built-in "action" variable to refer to the action directly, like 
${action.myMethod()}.  I'm not sure why the public methods aren't made 
available otherwise, but it's an easy enough solution.

http://markmail.org/message/upuwtwdd45cqwrwb

Thanks,
Chris

On 11/7/2009 1:20 AM, Daniel Dekany wrote:
> Thing is, FreeMarker is very flexible when it comes to building the
> data-model (mostly done with so called object wrapping), and I don't
> know what the Struts guys done. If they use the action object itself
> to be the data-model, with some typical object wrapper setup the
> public methods are visible. But then it seems they decided that they
> will not be visible... they can do that, it's up to them. So maybe
> it's better to ask them.
>
>
> Friday, November 6, 2009, 9:22:36 PM, Christopher Maloof wrote:
>
>    
>> On 11/6/2009 2:44 PM, Daniel Dekany wrote:
>> Friday, November 6, 2009, 6:32:05 PM, Christopher Maloof wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm just starting to use FreeMarker (2.3.15) with Struts 2.1.8.  It
>> mostly works great: my templates are retrieving bean information with no
>> problem.  However, I can't figure out how to call methods defined in my
>> action classes -- in fact I have no idea why it isn't working as I expected.
>>
>> If my action class looks like this:
>>
>> public class MyAction extends MyActionSupport {
>>      public String getMyValue() {
>>         return "hello";
>>      }
>>      public String myMethod() {
>>         return "world";
>>      }
>> }
>>      
> [snip]
>    
>> The template is mapped to the correct action, if that's what you're asking.  These things work:
>> ${myValue}  (indirect access to bean getter)
>> ${myValue.toUpperCase()}  (method call on object)
>> <@s.property value="myMethod()"/>    (Struts tag calling a method)
>>
>> But these things don't:
>> ${myMethod()}
>> ${getMyValue()}  (plain method calls as described in the docs)
>>
>> Chris
>>      
>
>    


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Christopher Maloof, M.S.
Software Developer, Medical Oncology, Informatics Shared Resource
Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University
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