[#APF-984] Upgrade Spring MVC Controllers to use annotations - AppFuse JIRA

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Upgrade Spring MVC Controllers to use annotations

Created: 17/Dec/07 03:37 PM Updated: 09/May/10 10:49 PM Resolved: 09/May/10 10:49 PM

Component/s:

Web - Spring

Affects Version/s:

None

Fix Version/s:

2.1.0-M2

File Attachments:

BaseController.java (6 kB)
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UserController.java (4 kB)

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Upgrade Spring MVC Controller classes to use annotations:
http://blog.interface21.com/main/2007/11/14/annotated-web-mvc-controllers-in-spring-25/

Form Controllers which extend BaseFormController (and in turn, Spring's SimpleFormController) can make use of the @RequestMapping annotation to define their request mappings:
org.appfuse.web.controller.FileUploadController
org.appfuse.web.controller.SignUpController
org.appfuse.web.controller.UserFormController

Other controllers should be rewritten to be annotation-based controllers, with the @Controller annotation:
org.appfuse.webapp.controller.PasswordHintController
org.appfuse.webapp.controller.UserController

Tutorials should also be updated.

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Matt Raible added a comment - 17/Dec/07 03:41 PM

While I like the annotation-based features added to Spring MVC, I'm not convinced they're better than extending classes (SimpleFormController and implementing Controller). Also, does putting URLs in Java code make sense? I think it's best to discuss this on the user list and see what people think.

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Marcello Teodori added a comment - 31/Jul/08 04:11 AM

Wouldn't it make sense to use a mixed approach to get the benefit of annotations while keeping URL mappings in a single location, like the one proposed here:
http://blog.springsource.com/main/2008/03/23/using-a-hybrid-annotations-xml-approach-for-request-mapping-in-spring-mvc/
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Donny A. Wijaya added a comment - 10/Oct/08 08:49 AM

A controller that has similar BaseFormController functionalities. This controller is for Spring 2.5 annotated MVC.

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Donny A. Wijaya added a comment - 10/Oct/08 08:51 AM

An example of class extending BaseController.

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Donny A. Wijaya added a comment - 10/Oct/08 08:55 AM

Sorry this looks like Spam. You can delete all my comments above. I thought when I comment on each file the comments would appear next to the file. Sorry about this.

Anyway I created a BaseController for Spring Annotated MVC. I also provided an example class using this BaseController. Sorry for not providing the other classes. But the other classes are DTOs and nothing much. I hope these two classes could be helpful.

Regards

Donny

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Marc Schipperheyn added a comment - 05/Jan/09 07:04 AM

Personally, I haven't looked back since upgrading my controllers. 100 times more convenient. A real pleasure versus the headaches of xml configuration. Also, the Spring team have stated that they will deprecate the controller hierarchy in the 3.0 release in favour of annotations and will eliminate it all together shortly after.