destroying the entire conversation stack through annotation?

[jacob.orshalick]

There are situations where I would like to be able to destroy the entire conversation stack if a particular action occurs (say a user cancels everything during a nested conversation). I am currently accomplishing this through the following:

private void endRootConversation() {
 Conversation conversation = Conversation.instance();

 while(conversation.isNested()) {
 conversation.root();
 }

 conversation.endBeforeRedirect();
}

Is is possible to end the root conversation through annotation, or is there potentially a better approach?

It is of course possible to create my own annotation, say @EndRoot, but this seems like going around the framework. I would prefer to say something like @End(root=true). Maybe I'm just missing something...

Thanks for any help you may be able to provide.

[jacob.orshalick]

By the way, I am currently using Seam 2.0.0.BETA1.

I have come up with a potential patch that would allow the existing @End annotation to perform this task:

In org.jboss.seam.annotations.End add the following:

boolean endRoot() default false;

and then in the org.jboss.seam.core.ConversationInterceptor.endConversationIfNecessary():

...
boolean endRoot = ( isEndAnnotation && method.getAnnotation(End.class).endRoot() );
...
private void endConversation(boolean beforeRedirect, boolean endRoot)
{
 Manager manager = Manager.instance();

 if(endRoot) {
 if(manager.isNestedConversation()) {
 manager.switchConversation(manager.getRootConversationId());
 }
 }

 manager.endConversation(beforeRedirect);
}
...

and adjust calls to endConversation(boolean beforeRedirect) accordingly.

This would allow you to specify @End(endRoot=true) on a method so the entire conversation stack is destroyed.

Any other thoughts? Thanks again for any help.

[pmuir]

You should do this in code as you currently are.

[jacob.orshalick]

Okay, no problem. Was just curious if there was annotation based approach, or if this was potentially in the works. Thanks for the response.