There's actually a feature requite there, but it's been marked "later". A patch has also been submitted, but with everything else going on, I haven't been able to look at it closely enough to commit it.
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7202 I do agree that now that we can do things like specify the input parameter as a forward, it only makes sense to use these as the standard Struts URI wrapper. In the case of an Action form, it may still be a requirement that it resolve to an Action. But being able to flex the target of a form (without a RTE) makes it easier to share forms between workflows (see also #10550). What really made be a believer is when I needed to change from application-based to container-based security. The targets of all the forms had to be changed to accomodate the URI pattern. The URIs may be virtual, but they are not logical. Other components have expectations about how they are used. If the targets of the forms had been specified as ActionForwards, I could have made ALL the changes from within the Struts configuration. -Ted John Yu wrote: > > I see. Perhaps you can file a feature request in Bugzilla. > > > At 07:44 am 06-09-2002, you wrote: > >> I understand, however I read in http://husted.com/struts/catalog.htm >> >> "Rather than embed the path to an ActionMapping in a JSP, a link should >> refer to a Global Forward instead... >> <forward name="itemSearch" path="/item/Search.do"/> >> <forward name="itemFindDonor" path="/item/Search.do?column=donor"/>" >> >> I thought this was good advice. Also, since a form action is >> essentially a >> link with parameters hidden from the browser's address bar I can't see >> why >> we shouldn't be able to use a global forward here as well. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: John Yu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Thursday, 5 September 2002 3:46 PM >> To: Struts Users Mailing List >> Subject: Re: global forwards in forms. >> >> >> doesn't support forwarding to global forwards. What global forwards >> give you is globally visible symbolic URIs. In a sense, the actions >> are already globally visible symbolic URIs. (Watch out that using may >> not be compatible with multi subapps.) > > -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY US co-author, Java Web Development with Struts Order it today: <http://husted.com/struts/book.html> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
