org.davesag.generica.controller
Interface Actor

All Superinterfaces:

ActionController, Controller

public interface Actor

extends ActionController

An implementation of the Actor interface must be able to perform some action or actions with the map of params provided. It is deliberately very genereric. Like Presenter s, a number of Actors can be sepcified in the Action definition in the struts-config.xml file.

Since:

Generica 1.0

Version:

CVS Revision $Id: Actor.java,v 1.2 2004/03/30 10:12:56 norm Exp $

Author:

Dave Sag http://www.davesag.com

See Also:

TargetAction

Method Summary

void	act(Map params) Perform some action using the param map provided.

Methods inherited from interface org.davesag.generica.controller.ActionController

setAction

Methods inherited from interface org.davesag.generica.controller.Controller

setForm, setRequest, setResponse

Method Detail

act

public void act(Map params)
         throws Exception

Perform some action using the param map provided. Actors, like other ActionControllers have access to the action itself and can call its setNextForward method to affect where the action should go when done.

Parameters:

params - A map of application specific params for the actor to act on.

Throws:

Exception - if something went wrong.