Read a property in the set-property tag

Question

How i can read a custom property defined in struts-config by adding <set-property property="customproperty" value="CustomValue"/> ??
I want to put some extra info about every action in the struts-config.xml and then read it from the action or actionMapping classes in run-time.

Answer 1

Hi,
I found it!!
The answer is: extend the ActionMapping (or the BC4JActionMapping for Oracle jdev developers) And add the extra-atributes (with the same name as the value in the <set-property> tag ) with their setter and getter methods.
Then add to <action> in the struts-config.xml the atribute className:
<action path="/logon" className="MyActionMapping">
<set-property property="customProperty" value="SomeValue" >
</action>
or,
change in the web.xml the mapping param:
<init-param>
<param-name>mapping</param-name>
<param-value>MyActionMapping</param-value>
</init-param>
Then, in the Action wich receive the ActionMapping object, cast to MyActionMapping and get the atributes with their setter and getter methods:
((MyActionMapping)mapping).getCustomProperty();
i hope this help to others with the same problem.