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What do you about event programming in Java Server
Side programming ?

With this html button :

<input type="submit" name="ok" value="ajouter">	
invoke method onAjouter(,,,)
<input type="submit" name="ok"
value="enregistrer">	invoke method
onEnregistrer(,,,) 

Etc...


<font size="1" color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif"> 
package  com.csi.controller;

<b>// Struts</b>
import  org.apache.struts.action.*;
<b>// Servlet</b>
import  javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import  javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
<b>// Import log4j classes.</b>
import  org.apache.log4j.Category;
import  org.apache.log4j.BasicConfigurator;
<b>// Reflect</b>
import  java.lang.reflect.Method;


<b>/**</b>
<b> * Titre : MyAction.java</b>
<b> * Description : Event Programming in Struts ;)</b>
<b> * Copyright :    Copyright (c) 2001</b>
<b> * @author : b7st@yahoo.fr</b>
<b> * @version 0.00001a</b>
<b> */
public abstract class MyAction extends Action {
    static Category log =
Category.getInstance(MeeschaertAction.class);

    public MyAction () {
    }

    public ActionForward perform (ActionMapping
mapping, ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest request,
            HttpServletResponse response) throws
java.io.IOException, javax.servlet.ServletException {
            
        <b>// Get submit parameter 'ok' value</b>
        <b>// ex: &lt;input type="submit" name="ok"
value="ajouter"&gt;</b>
        String button = request.getParameter("ok");
        if (button != null) {
            <b>// If ok, get the good method name </b>
            <b>// ex: onAjouter</b>
            String methodName = "on" +
button.toUpperCase().substring(0, 1)
                    +
button.toLowerCase().substring(1, button.length());
            Method method = null;
            Class thisAction = this.getClass();
            Class param[] = new Class[4];
            param[0] = ActionMapping.class;
            param[1] = ActionForm.class;
            param[2] = HttpServletRequest.class;
            param[3] = HttpServletResponse.class;
            try {
                <b>// Test if the method exist in
derived class</b>
                method =
thisAction.getDeclaredMethod(methodName, param);
                Object value[] = new Object[4];
                value[0] = mapping;
                value[1] = form;
                value[2] = request;
                value[3] = response;
                <b>// Yes, so invoke it !</b>
                return 
(ActionForward)method.invoke(this, value);
            } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
                log.debug("EVT(" + e + "): No " +
methodName + "(,,,) found, using go(,,,)");
            } catch (Exception e) {
                log.warn("EVT(" + e + "): No " +
methodName + "(,,,) found, using go(,,,)",
                        e);
            }
        }
        <b>// Else invoke normal method</b>
        return  go(mapping, form, request, response);
    }

    public abstract ActionForward go (ActionMapping
mapping, ActionForm form,
            HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws
java.io.IOException,
            javax.servlet.ServletException;

}
</font> 

Emmanuel,


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