I want to have a form that creates one of several subclasses in a type hierarchy. Say it's AbstractPerson with the subclasses Employee and Visitor.
Can I do that with a single Action / REST-Controller Bean?
Usually I use the form-ids smart, so it assigns values directly to the setters of my Action. So if I have a member like
AbstractPerson member;
I would try to use a form with an input field called "member.name".
However, struts must create an instance of AbstractPerson first - and it can't because it's abstract! It would be very cool if I could give struts2 a hint that it should actually create a Empolyee or Visitor object (depending on the form content). Is that or sth similar possible?
Cheers!