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In my struts 2 project, I have an action that implements the ScopedModelDriven interface.

I have configuration that references the ScopedModelDrivenInterceptor with a session scope…

	<interceptor name="scoped-model-driven" class="com.opensymphony.xwork2.interceptor.ScopedModelDrivenInterceptor">
	     <param name="scope">session</param>
	</interceptor>

My action references this interceptor and specifies the key used when the object was previously put in the session.

	<interceptor-ref name="scoped-model-driven">
		<param name="name">session-key</param>
	</interceptor-ref>

This all works fine, except in my freemarker templates I now need to reference model.myproperty, rather than just property.

I could live with that, but unfortunately

	<#if myproperty?has_content>
		...

no longer returns any results and worse

	<#if model.myproperty?has_content>
		...

blows up completely!

javax.servlet.ServletException: ?size is unsupported for: freemarker.ext.beans.SimpleMethodModel
org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.serviceAction(Dispatcher.java:515)
org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher.doFilter(FilterDispatcher.java:419)
com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.parsePage(PageFilter.java:119)
com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:55)
org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ActionContextCleanUp.doFilter(ActionContextCleanUp.java:99)
org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:81)


I’ve tried a few variations of reference to no avail.

Very disappointing.
The reason I’m writing this up is that the scoped model driven thing looked almost exactly how I wanted to go with these actions, so I want to remember where I got to, but getting it working is more important.

Back to ModelDriven, SessionAware and Preparable…

My week started with a look at an evaluation of Spring MVC or JSF+?.

But it wasn’t long before I was consumed by OSGi to the extent that’s I’ve hardly looked at anything else. I intend to post some sort of summary for myself at some point, once my brain has stopped bubbling.

I did find a reasonably interesting/useful page on the Struts 2 plugin architecture.