Struts ActionProxy: how to set a method?

Question

I'm using openSymphony 2.1.2 and I have some old code that was written for older versions of openSymphony.

As you can see, it tells me that ActionProxy has no method setMethod(String). It probably used to have. But not anymore.

But it still has a method String getMethod(). So how is there a method variable that I can get, but not set? How do I set the method in the new API?

import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionProxy;

protected ActionProxy proxy = null;

//used to work with older versions of openSymphony, now there's a compilation error here:
//The method setMethod(String) is undefined for the type ActionProxy
proxy.setMethod(methodName);

UPDATE:

I am working on a system (which was not written by me) that uses openSymphony 2.1. and Struts 2.3.8.

On that system, I am trying to apply the following code:

Action Unit Testing with Struts 2.0. Part 2

That code fails with the versions of openSymphony and Struts my project uses. So I am trying to upgrade that code to the newer versions of openSymphony and Struts.

I need it in order to be able to simulate running the struts actions from my system, in a system that is based on a different framework.

Answer 1

DefaultActionProxy is implementing ActionProxy. To set the method attribute you should extend DefaultActionProxy and set the super protected attribute via your setMethod implementation.

Then you should extend DefaultActionProxyFactory and substitute DefaultActionProxy in the createActionProxy().

After that modify struts.xml and override

<bean type="com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionProxyFactory" name="xwork" ... />

with your own factory.

But preferably to set the method in the parameters with the method: prefix or using setMethod in the ActionMapping class that you could get from the ActionContext or you can extend the DefaultActionMapper to get the mapping you need. See docs.

Answer 2

Just use appropriate createActionProxy method of ActionProxyFactory which takes methodName as one of the parameters.

public ActionProxy createActionProxy(String namespace, String actionName,
    String methodName, Map<String, Object> extraContext, boolean executeResult,
    boolean cleanupContext);

or

public ActionProxy createActionProxy(String namespace, String actionName,
    String methodName, Map<String, Object> extraContext);

or

public ActionProxy createActionProxy(ActionInvocation actionInvocation,
    String namespace, String actionName, String methodName,
    boolean executeResult, boolean cleanupContext);

See: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/struts/struts2/tags/STRUTS_2_3_8/xwork-core/src/main/java/com/opensymphony/xwork2/ActionProxyFactory.java?view=markup