+1
I have actually suggested wildcards in the past, similar to the way the URL
mapping to servlets already works. As long as it only wildcards on entire
components of the path (e.g. /abcdef/* is ok, but not /abcdef/ghi* is not)
it would not be that high overhead...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: February 22, 2001 10:19 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Capability for wildcards
>
>
> A quick question about Struts' capabilities.
>
> I want to match a wildcard, such as "/portal/*", where the
> "*" could be
> "/mydir/mypage.jsp". Fine so far--I know Struts can handle this.
>
> Now, I want all these requests to be funnelled to a single
> Action. From what
> I can tell, the <action> tag in the struts-config.xml doesn't support
> wildcards. Is this correct?
>
> Based upon my tests, this does *not* seem to work. But, I'll
> admit that I
> might be missing something obvious.
>
> I'd like to have an action that looks like:
>
> <action path="/portal/*"
> type="my.portal.ControllerClass"
> name="whatever"
> scope="request"
> validate="false">
> </action>
>
> The "my.portal.ControllerClass" class would then extract the
> originally
> requested URL (minus the "/portal"), set it as an attribute
> (so that the
> template page could use it to import the document in the
> content area), then
> forward the request to a file "template.jsp" located in the
> directory of the
> requested URL (again, minus the "/portal"--I don't want the
> forward to be
> handled by the Struts controller :-)
>
> The reason for this is I want my web developers to be able to
> work without
> the portal template, creating documents whose links all
> actually work (the
> web app would be mapped to "/portal"). Then, when it gets
> deployed, they
> install the web app in "/", and everything works automagically!
>
> Maybe there's another "preferred" method of doing this. I
> know that having
> the content file as a GET variable would work within the
> Struts methodology,
> but that wouldn't work for my web developers that don't have a local
> installation of Jakarta. :-(
>
> Cheers!
> -dan
> --
> Dan Kirkpatrick, Software Architect
> Blue Lotus Software +44 (0) 1224 575 985
> http://www.bluelotussoftware.com
>
