Struts2: custom action mapper defined in Spring

Question

I have following situation:

• I use Struts2 as MVC cobtroller
• I use Spring as object factory
• I implemented custom action mapper, I have configured this as a bean in my spring configuration.

How can I tell Struts to use this bean as an action mapper?

I tried top set:

struts.mapper.class=beanName

in struts.properties but this doesn't work.

Answer 1

Do you have have following the struts.xml file ? This is required to tell Struts2 that objects will be created by Spring

<struts>
 <constant name="struts.objectFactory" value="org.apache.struts2.spring.StrutsSpringObjectFactory" />
    ... 
</struts>

OR

Add the following property in the struts.properties

struts.objectFactory = org.apache.struts2.spring.StrutsSpringObjectFactory

Answer 2

I'm having the same issue. I have a custom action mapper which I've configured Struts 2 to use in the struts.xml:

    <bean type="org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.mapper.ActionMapper" name="PracticeContextMapper" class="com.practs.struts.mapper.PracticeContextMapper" />
<constant name="struts.mapper.composite" value="PracticeContextMapper,struts" />
<constant name="struts.mapper.class" value="composite" />

Then, I put in an autowired property (with accessor methods) in my new custom action mapper:

public class PracticeContextMapper implements ActionMapper
{
@Autowired
private PracticeService practiceService;

@Override
public ActionMapping getMapping(HttpServletRequest request,
        ConfigurationManager configManager)
{
        ...

The service bean I want to inject is set up in my applicationContext file propertly:

<bean id="practiceService" class="com.practs.bizObjects.practices.PracticeServiceImpl" />

I'm doing the exact same thing with all my struts actions, and Spring is injecting everything just fine. Unfortunately, it won't do any injection on the ActionMapper. Is this a limitation of the Struts-Spring plugin? Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance.