These are the notes for the Struts 2.5.16 distribution.
For prior notes in this release series, see Version Notes 2.5.14.1
- If you are a Maven user, you might want to get started using the Maven Archetype.
Maven Dependency
<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId> <artifactId>struts2-core</artifactId> <version>2.5.16</version> </dependency>
You can also use Struts Archetype Catalog like below
Struts Archetype Catalog
mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://struts.apache.org/
Staging Repository
<repositories> <repository> <id>apache.nexus</id> <name>ASF Nexus Staging</name> <url>https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/</url> </repository> </repositories>
Internal Changes
- Interface
com.opensymphony.xwork2.inject.Factory
was extended with a new methodClass<? extends T> type();
- it's due to allowContainerBuilder
properly initialise beans usingcom.opensymphony.xwork2.inject.Initializable
andcom.opensymphony.xwork2.inject.EarlyInitializable
interfaces. See WW-4905 for more details.
Bug
- [WW-4546] - unclosed instantiation of PrintWriter
- [WW-4741] - Http Sessions forcefully created for all requests using I18nInterceptor with default Storage value.
- [WW-4873] - NotSerializableException - org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.StrutsRequestWrapper
- [WW-4900] - NotSerializableException: com.opensymphony.xwork2.inject.ContainerImpl$ConstructorInjector when using ExecuteAndWait interceptor
- [WW-4901] - ClassCastException in JarEntryRevision
- [WW-4903] - Dependency Mapping Exception When Using PrefixBasedActionProxyFactory
- [WW-4906] - The converter() method of com.opensymphony.xwork2.conversion.annotations.TypeConversion is now deprecated. If this method is removed in some next release, it will forbid to describe a converter by the name (id) of a Spring bean.
- [WW-4908] - Conversion by annotation does not work
- [WW-4909] - List of Boolean is not populated in Action class
- [WW-4911] - JSONResult exception in struts2-json-plugin-2.5.14.1.jar
- [WW-4918] - buttons with name="method:METHODNAME" sometimes ignore global-allowed-methods defined in struts.xml
- [WW-4920] - Could not create JarEntryRevision for [zip:C:/.... unknown protocol c
- [WW-4921] - NPE in I18nInterceptor$SessionLocaleHandler.read
- [WW-4923] - JasperReportResult: NPE When Not Using SQL Connection
New Feature
- [WW-4907] - support JSR 303 Validation Groups in BeanValidation-Plugin
Improvement
- [WW-4891] - Debug tag should not display anything when not in dev mode
- [WW-4905] - Allow using of Initializable interface on an implementation level
- [WW-4912] - Allowed methods inheritance
- [WW-4922] - Allow use Jackson XML bindings to serialise / deserialise XML
Task
- [WW-4913] - when using an custom array as a filed in struts 2 action form textfiled data from jsp page in not populating into custom array but populating in String array or array list