The best place to bring up whether a feature would be added would be the DEV list or by registering an enhancement request on Bugzilla.
Though, reliance on the order of parameters in a query string runs counter to the HTML spec, where there is no guarantee in what order a browser will submit the elements. There was a interesting post the other day regarding using a helper servlet to transform "exta path" type query strings into conventional query strings. The idea is a non-intrusive extension that would be backwardly compatible. http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg26530.html But, AFAIK, someone has to actually write it yet =:o) If someone did write it, I'd be happy to make it available to the community, either in the Struts distribution or in the Scaffold package under Contrib. -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY US -- Developing Java Web Applications with Struts -- Tel: +1 585 737-3463 -- Web: http://husted.com/about/services "Pedone, Tim" wrote: > > I've got an app that uses the feature of the html:link tag to append > additional parameters to the url. Because we are not sure how different > systems (browsers or proxy servers) will handle long query strings, we want > to put the least significant parameter at the end of the query string so if > a browser, or proxy server truncates the string, we will only lose that > data. > > In order to do this I used a TreeMap to hold my key/value pairs. The > problem is that RequestUtils.computeParameters() uses the copy constructor > HashMap(Map) so my sorted Map gets copied into an unsorted Map. I was > thinking about changing that method to use clone() instead so that the class > of Map that is passed in is preserved. > > I don't want to use a "custom" version of Struts however so I wanted to know > if a change like this would have any chance at getting into the 1.1 release. > > Thanks, > > Tim Pedone > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
