org.apache.struts.chain.commands
Class AbstractCreateAction

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.struts.chain.commands.ActionCommandBase
      org.apache.struts.chain.commands.AbstractCreateAction

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.apache.commons.chain.Command, ActionCommand

Direct Known Subclasses:

CreateAction

public abstract class AbstractCreateAction
extends ActionCommandBase

Create (if necessary) and cache an Action for this request.

Version:

$Rev: 510851 $ $Date: 2005-11-12 13:01:44 -0500 (Sat, 12 Nov 2005) $

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.apache.commons.chain.Command

CONTINUE_PROCESSING, PROCESSING_COMPLETE

Constructor Summary

AbstractCreateAction()

Method Summary

boolean	execute(ActionContext actionCtx) Create (if necessary) and cache an Action for this request.
protected abstract Action	getAction(ActionContext context, java.lang.String type, ActionConfig actionConfig) Create and return the appropriate Action class for the given type and actionConfig.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.struts.chain.commands.ActionCommandBase

execute

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AbstractCreateAction

public AbstractCreateAction()

Method Detail

execute

public boolean execute(ActionContext actionCtx)
                throws java.lang.Exception

Create (if necessary) and cache an Action for this request.

Specified by:

execute in interface ActionCommand

Specified by:

execute in class ActionCommandBase

Parameters:

actionCtx - The Context for the current request

Returns:

false so that processing continues

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if there are any problems instantiating the Action class.

getAction

protected abstract Action getAction(ActionContext context,
                                    java.lang.String type,
                                    ActionConfig actionConfig)
                             throws java.lang.Exception

Create and return the appropriate Action class for the given type and actionConfig.

NOTE: The dependence on ActionServlet suggests that this should be broken up along the lines of the other Abstract/concrete pairs in the org.apache.struts.chain.commands package.

Parameters:

context - The Context for this request

type - Name of class to instantiate

actionConfig - The ActionConfig for this request

Returns:

Instantiated Action class

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if there are any problems instantiating the Action class.