Re: Rewriting the URL in a form:form action
Westbay-san wrote: Please try something like: form:form action="%= request.getContextPath() %/x" While I'm still learning the Struts' tag libraries, I believe that this is the way to do it. I belive that scriplets parse before taglibs, so the result of %= request.getContextPath() % will be put into the action attribute before the form:form is parsed. (Please, somebody correct me if I'm wrong on that point.) Unfortunately, it appears that scriptlets parse *after* taglibs. When I use this, the generated html is: action="lt;%= request.getContextPath() %gt;/x" G. It seems that I may be writing my own taglib sooner than I thought! -- Erik
Re: Rewriting the URL in a form:form action
McClanahan-san wrote:
This approach definitely works ... but it would seem to make sense for the
form:form tag to assume a path starting with "/" should be interpreted as
context relative. Let me think about it a little more -- if there are no
gotchas, I will make the tag smarter about this.
The only "gotchas" I can think of is when you WANT to go to a different
context. Several people have expressed that they want to break up development
into several contexts for each subproject, but they should all act as a whole
in the end. Therefore, it wouldn't be unusual to post to a different context.
Of course, that would most likely be the exception to most circumstances, so
a flag to override action.startsWith("/") would probably allow for both types
to live together.
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Re: Rewriting the URL in a form:form action
Craig R. McClanahan wrote: Michael Westbay wrote: Please try something like: form:form action="%= request.getContextPath() %/x" This won't work (invalid tag attribute syntax), but the following will: form:form action='%= request.getContextPath() + "/x" %' Thanks! That works fine. -- Erik
Rewriting the URL in a form:form action
I've got a system with a large number of JSPs that I'm developing using Tomcat 3.2 and Struts 1.0 (12/4 nightly build). Because of the large number of files, I've started organizing the them in subdirectories. This has caused me to run into a problem, however. There doesn't appear to be any way to cause the URL in a form:form tag's "action" parameter to be rewritten using the webapp's context path. As a result, if I use an action="x", it directs the action to x in the current directory, which in my case isn't what I want. If I use an action="/x", it directs the action to the x in the web server's root directory - not the root of my webapp context, which is what I want. I tried embedding form:rewrite page="x" inside the action= of the form:form, but predictably that does not make jasper happy at all: "Attribute has no value" - note the empty attribute name in the message. Does anyone have ideas on how to make this fly, or do I simply have to go back to a flat directory structure? -- Erik
RE: Rewriting the URL in a form:form action
The action parameter can handle a runtime expression, so you should be able to build a custom value in there that includes the context path... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: December 6, 2000 2:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Rewriting the URL in a form:form action I've got a system with a large number of JSPs that I'm developing using Tomcat 3.2 and Struts 1.0 (12/4 nightly build). Because of the large number of files, I've started organizing the them in subdirectories. This has caused me to run into a problem, however. There doesn't appear to be any way to cause the URL in a form:form tag's "action" parameter to be rewritten using the webapp's context path. As a result, if I use an action="x", it directs the action to x in the current directory, which in my case isn't what I want. If I use an action="/x", it directs the action to the x in the web server's root directory - not the root of my webapp context, which is what I want. I tried embedding form:rewrite page="x" inside the action= of the form:form, but predictably that does not make jasper happy at all: "Attribute has no value" - note the empty attribute name in the message. Does anyone have ideas on how to make this fly, or do I simply have to go back to a flat directory structure? -- Erik
Re: Rewriting the URL in a form:form action
I had suggested: form:form action="%= request.getContextPath() %/x" as a possible solution to the form URI getting the context problem. But in another thread, Richards-san pointed out (asked?): And although we can so things within % % tags, it is not preferred? So, I guess that the politically correct way would be to extend the form tag to take an attribute like: form:form action="/x" usecontextpath="true" Wasn't something like this brought up with another tag ealier? -- Michael Westbay Work: Beacon-IT http://www.beacon-it.co.jp/ Home: http://www.seaple.icc.ne.jp/~westbay Commentary: http://www.japanesebaseball.com/
