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Mark
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Maps and Struts 2
Hi Phil,
I understand what you meant now. I tried using the VRContext, which extends HashMap, as a property of my action and letting OGNL fill in the values. The problem I ran into was that all of the properties ended up being String[]. The type conversion didn't work. I think there is a way to tell OGNL what the type of a property should be, but just using a first class bean seemed easier.
I've simplified the marshaling of the data to and from the VRContext using a helper method that copies all properties of a bean to a Map. That was a simple two liner in Groovy.
Mark