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ObjectFactory has the sole responsibility of creating objects needed by Struts2. It is how Struts2 does its integration All objects created by the framework are instantiated by the ObjectFactory. The ObjectFactory provides the means of integrating the framework with IoC containers like Spring, Pico, Plexus etc, and so forth.
Customize
Extend ObjectFactory
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Customized ObjectFactory must extend ObjectFactory or any of its descendants and have a default, no-argument constructor. |
To have register a customized ObjectFactory, have the following add or edit an entry in struts.properties
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struts.objectFactory=foo.bar.MyCustomObjectFactory
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where foo.bar.MyCustomObjectFactory is the custom object factory.
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public class MyObjectFactory extends ObjectFactory {
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}
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Define dedicated factory
If you want to just extend one part of ObjectFactory, ie. to change how Result Types are build, you can implement ResultFactory interface and register it with dedicated name, see Extension Points for more details. Original ObjectFactory will use these dedicated factories to do the work. It's already done this way - the original functionality of ObjectFactory was extracted to separated classes which implements the interfaces below. Check the source of ObjectFactory to see more details. All these factories are available as from version 2.3.16.
List of Factory interfaces:
ResultFactory- dedicated interfaces used by ObjectFactory to create Result TypesStrutsResultFactoryit's internal implementation which checks if Result implementsParamNameAwareResultinterface to restrict names of parameters set on the instance of Result, see Result Types for more info.
ActionFactory- dedicated interface used by ObjectFactory to actionsInterceptorFactory- dedicated interface used by ObjectFactory to create interceptorsValidatorFactory- dedicated interface used by ObjectFactory to create validatorsConverterFactory- dedicated interface used by ObjectFactory to create instances of TypeConverterUnknownHandlerFactory- dedicated interfaces used by ObjectFactory to create instances of Unknown Handlers (as from version 2.3.18)