[Opensource] links in expresso

Brian Rook brian.rook at xor.com
Tue Jul 23 10:20:12 PDT 2002


Is there a way to create links in expresso?  I'm not really interested in
using the struts html:link tag.  I've been thinking that you should be able
to create links from transition objects.  Has anyone done anything like
this?

Benefits:
1)  You could setup your query string with the .addParam() and
.getParamString() methods.
2)  All the transitions are controlled by your controller now
3)  The code would be a lot cleaner.
4)  Use the label attribute to hold the text for the link

Questions:
Using transitions for forms you have to specify the path to the controller
in the form action attribute (i.e. form action="/myApp/Controller.do")  How
would you do this in a link tag?  Would you have to create a new attribute
to hold this information?  When you create a transition you give it a state
and a controller... does it have any way of pulling the path to the
controller out of the config.xml file for you?




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