Configuration Provider & Configuration
The ConfigurationProvider interface describes the framework’s configuration. By default, the framework loads its
configurations via an XML document by using the StrutsXmlConfigurationProvider
. The provider can be configured
through a Dispatcher’s DispatcherListener.
Example
static {
Dispatcher.addDispatcherListener(new DispatcherListener() {
....
public void dispatcherInitialized(Dispatcher du) {
ConfigurationManager confManager = du.getConfigurationManager();
confManager.addConfigurationProvider( ... );
}
....
});
}
Configuration provider
ConfigurationProvider
is the basic piece of configuration used to tie all the options together in ConfigurationManager
.
There is few different implementations that are already used internally by the Apache Struts:
XmlDocConfigurationProvider
- an abstract based implementation which can use XML documents from any source as configurationXmlConfigurationProvider
- an abstract based implementation which can use XML files on disk as source of configurationStrutsXmlConfigurationProvider
- primary configuration provider, representsstruts.xml
,struts-plugin.xml
andstruts-deferred.xml
filesPropertiesConfigurationProvider
- used to loadstruts.properties
-ServletContextAwareConfigurationProvider
- marking interface allowing to injectServletContext
into provider
To inject your custom configuration provider use configProviders
<init-param/>
in web.xml