RE: Reaching Action class from Href Link

[Greg Maletic]

Now I'm really confused!  Your original problem was that you wanted to have
a link forward to an action.  Your clarification shows how to do it from a
form ("<form action="SomeAction>"), but then you say that using a link or
href will not work.  That doesn't seem to solve your original problem, does
it?

Please let me know what I'm missing here, because I'm having this problem as
well.

Thanks!


-----Original Message-----
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rg]On Behalf Of John M. Corro
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 1:33 PM
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Subject: Re: Reaching Action class from Href Link


Thanks to John and Ken for the assistance.

Point of clarification other interested newbies, using a form's 'action'
value as the link's 'href' value will not work - the reason mine wasn't
working.  For instance,

<form action="SomeAction">

may work, where as

<a href="SomeAction">~~~</a> or <html:link href="SomeAction"~~~></html:link>

will not.




----- Original Message -----
From: "John Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:22 AM
Subject: RE: Reaching Action class from Href Link


> Using the struts html:form tag will set the method to POST by default.
This
> won't prevent you from using the link as you describe though.  The service
> methods of an HttpServlet doPost() and doGet() will accomplish essentially
> the same goal (often doGet() will just call doPost() ).  In the case of
the
> struts ActionServlet, both of these methods call process().  So you can
use
> a query string to pass your parameters (or extra path info if you wish).
>
> So, that was a little long-winded way of saying that your link can look
> like:
> <a href="/someContext/someAction.do?param1=foo&param2=bar&param3=baz">LINK
> TEXT</a>
>
> Hope this helps!!
>
> --John
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John M. Corro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 1:07 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Reaching Action class from Href Link
>
>
> I've recently begun working with Struts and am looking to create a
scenario
> where a user can click on a link and trigger some event in an Action class
> (ie the clicking of a link would be the same as clicking a form's submit
> button).  My understanding is that within Struts forms submit by the post
> method by default so I don't know if the only way to reach an Action class
> is by an actual form.  Any one have any insight?
>
>
>