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IDEA 11.x scope

A list of new features/improvements planned for IDEA 11.x
Please submit new RFEs to issue tracker or vote/comment on existing Struts2 issues

OGNL support: please see dedicated page Struts 2 Plugin OGNL Support
Resolve Action-class properties (as done in Freemarker): JSP Form properties nested s:param , struts.xml , validation.xml , ..
Support Struts 2.3.x
Convention plugin support
S2 taglib support for Freemarker/Velocity (as in JSP)
Extend I18N support: validation.xml
Struts2 jQuery Plugin: align with latest version

Nika 11.1.2 (not released)

General

• Project wizard: fix OGNL version to 3.0.4 (IDEA-85280)

Nika 11.1 Final 117.105 (12-03-28)

IDEA 11.1 has been released and is available here.

Nika 11.1 EAP 114.55 (12-02-08)

Blog post

General

• Project wizard: update to Struts 2.3.1.2
• Cleanup/improve Facet and Library setup

struts.xml

• <param>: fix support when referencing properties of interceptors from interceptor-stack, e.g. "validation.excludeMethods" (IDEA-68134)
• <incude>: fix bug when included file is located in different module (IDEA-80279)

JSP

• <s:a>: add support for "action", "namespace" (IDEA-78825)
• "action"-tags: add support for "method" (IDEA-67723)

validation.xml

• Struts 2.3.1: add support for 1.0.3-DTD, add support for new DTD-ID/URIs pointing to struts.apache.org/dtds/... (fixes non-recognized default.xml from S2 distribution)

Convention plugin

• @DefaultInterceptorRef

OGNL

• "new ..." - expression support (WIP)

Nika Final 111.69 (11-12-06)

IDEA 11 has been released and is available here.

Nika Beta 110.492 EAP (11-11-22)

Blog post

General

• Action properties: fix resolve highlighting for properties only having setter (IDEA-75136)

struts.xml

• <exception-mapping>: fix resolving to global results from Action-local definition (IDEA-77229)

OGNL

• Formatting: basic reformat (whitespaces) support (using Java settings)

Nika 110.365 (11-11-10)

struts.xml

• <result> "type": fix/more strict resolving/navigation for certain cases

Java

• Gutter navigation icons: always on the very left for not mixing up with "Overrides/Overridden" icons

JSP

• Taglib: improve highlighting performance for JavaScript in tag attributes

OGNL

• JSP(X): improve highlighting performance of OGNL expressions in tag attributes
• JSP(X): support <s:iterator> "value"

Nika 110.291 (11-11-02)

Blog post

struts.xml

• Spring integration: fix problem in certain multi-module project setups
• (<default-)<interceptor-ref>: fix/more strict resolving/navigation for certain cases (IDEA-73160)

OGNL

• Injection: handle multiple OGNL fragments in one attribute, e.g. href="order.action?catId=%{catId}&totalPrice=%{price + vat}"
• Freemarker: inject OGNL language into S2 taglib attributes
• Improved completion for keywords
• Auto-complete closing "}" after typing "%{" and "{"

Nika 110.187 (11-10-21)

Blog post

General

• Spellchecking: bundled dictionary with Struts 2 specific words/acronyms (enabled automatically)

struts.xml

• Action class properties: now available in <result> (IDEA-68828)

OGNL

• Spellchecking: inspect only relevant content (text, identifiers)

Nika 110.178 (11-10-20)

General

• Various bugfixes

Nika 110.137 (11-10-17)

struts.xml

• Improve highlighting performance when Spring Framework is used with struts2-spring-plugin
• <action>, <result>: better/stricter support for wildcard mappings

Nika 110.3 (11-09-30)

JSP

• Action class properties: not working when parent has no setter (IDEA-74967)
• Form input tags: highlight duplicate "id" values (IDEA-74726)

Nika First EAP 108.1333 (11-09-20)

General

• Fix handling of actions w/o "class" (using <default-class-ref>): navigation, highlighting, quickdoc, ..
• Project wizard: update to Struts 2.2.3.1, remove support for 2.0.14
• Project wizard: use 2.1.7 or 2.3-DTD if applicable
• IDEA hangs caused by slow Struts icons IDEA-73002

struts.xml

• Error highlighting performance improvements
• Support 2.3-DTD
• 2.3-DTD: resolve action-methods in <allowed-methods>
• Structure View: improve performance, never show "plus" for elements which are always leafs

validation.xml

• Structure View: improve performance, never show "plus" for elements which are always leafs
• <field> "name": resolve/complete to corresponding Action-class property (IDEA-72012)
• <message> "key": support for Properties-based I18N (can be disabled in S2 facet, tab "Features")

JAVA/Groovy

• Action: "Go To Related File" navigates to result(s) (JSP/VM/FTL/.. - file) and <action>-declaration(s) in struts.xml
• Action: "Go To Related File" navigates to corresponding validation.xml-file(s), also via class-level editor gutter icon (IDEA-73277)
• Intention: "Create validation.xml" to create new ActionClassName-validation.xml (IDEA-73277)

JSP

• Resolve Action properties in <s:param> and all form input tags nested in <s:url>, <s:action>, .. (IDEA-68985, IDEA-68910)
• Editor highlighting performance improvements

OGNL

First drop of OGNL support, please see Struts 2 Plugin OGNL Support for details.

Known issues:

• supported automatically for all Struts JSP tag attributes starting with "%{" or "{"
• some expressions (e.g. all "@"-expressions, map creation, lambdas) are not parsed yet and will display bogus errors, please wait for later versions
• can be injected manually if required (using "IntelliLang" plugin)

Use "Edit OGNL Frament" intention for better editing capatibilites.