> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 3:46 PM
> To: Struts Developers List
> Subject: Re: Path-mapped action and Struts 1.1 beta
>
>
> "Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
> > No ... and (this time at least) not because of lack of
> time. It is not at
> > all obvious how to rig path mapping to the controller to
> work together
> > with the basic assumption of sub-applications that there is
> a prefix for
> > that subapp. All I can think of is requiring you to map
> the controller
> > once per subapp, which is both ugly and will require a
> bunch of changes to
> > the existing code that assumes there is only one mapping to
> the controller
> > servlet.
> >
> > Ideas, anyone?
>
> Underlying problem with modules and prefix mapping:
>
> Controller is inserting module name before "module-relative"
> path. This
> happens for all URIs, not just actions. So with
> prefix-mapping, we'd not
> only have /do/module1/action but /do/module/page.jsp.
>
> Killer kludge of the week:
>
> Use unknown action feature to trim servlet prefix from page requests.
> When controller can't find the "page.jsp" action, it forward to a
> standard unknown action that removes the servlet-mapping
> prefix ("/do"),
> and forwards again, this time to /module/page.jsp.
Well, this suggests an interesting alternative to using a prefix for the
default sub-app, knowing that the fact that no such sub-app is defined will
cause the request to be sent to the default sub-app anyway... ;-)
--
Martin Cooper
>
> =:0) Just kidding =:0)
>
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