Class AnnotationWorkflowInterceptor

java.lang.Object
org.apache.struts2.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor
org.apache.struts2.interceptor.annotations.AnnotationWorkflowInterceptor
All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable, ConditionalInterceptor, Interceptor, PreResultListener

public class AnnotationWorkflowInterceptor extends AbstractInterceptor implements PreResultListener

Invokes any annotated methods on the action. Specifically, it supports the following annotations:

  • @Before - will be invoked before the action method. If the returned value is not null, it is returned as the action result code
  • @BeforeResult - will be invoked after the action method but before the result execution
  • @After - will be invoked after the action method and result execution

There can be multiple methods marked with the same annotations, but the order of their execution is not guaranteed. However, the annotated methods on the superclass chain are guaranteed to be invoked before the annotated method in the current class in the case of a Before annotations and after, if the annotations is After.

 
  public class BaseAnnotatedAction {
        protected String log = "";

        @Before
        public String baseBefore() {
                log = log + "baseBefore-";
                return null;
        }
  }

  public class AnnotatedAction extends BaseAnnotatedAction {
        @Before
        public String before() {
                log = log + "before";
                return null;
        }

        public String execute() {
                log = log + "-execute";
                return Action.SUCCESS;
        }

        @BeforeResult
        public void beforeResult() throws Exception {
                log = log +"-beforeResult";
        }

        @After
        public void after() {
                log = log + "-after";
        }
  }
 
  

With the interceptor applied and the action executed on AnnotatedAction the log instance variable will contain baseBefore-before-execute-beforeResult-after.

Configure a stack in xwork.xml that replaces the PrepareInterceptor with the AnnotationWorkflowInterceptor:

 
 <interceptor-stack name="annotatedStack">
        <interceptor-ref name="staticParams"/>
        <interceptor-ref name="params"/>
        <interceptor-ref name="conversionError"/>
        <interceptor-ref name="annotationWorkflow"/>
 </interceptor-stack>
  
 
Author:
Zsolt Szasz, zsolt at lorecraft dot com, Rainer Hermanns, Dan Oxlade, dan d0t oxlade at gmail d0t c0m
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