"Brian K. Buckley" wrote:
> Yes but how do I access that errors object from the perform() method of
> Action? (or if we create a new ActionErrors object, where do we put it
> since perform() returns an ActionForward object, not an ActionErrors
> object).
>
> I wanted to be able to add the errors in the perform() method of my action
> object so that when the perform method returned for example,
> "mapping.findForward("failure")", the appropriate errors messages get
> displayed with the <html:errors/> tag in the jsp.
>
> -Brian
The errors object is saved in the request under a known key
(Action.ERRORS_KEY).
Within perform(), you can call the convenience method
saveErrors(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
ActionErrors errors)
to do this. See the JavaDoc for more about how the Action class works.
http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/api/org/apache/struts/action/Action.html
It's a good read, really ;-)
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