On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Adam Sherman wrote:
> Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 08:15:52 -0500
> From: Adam Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: Linked Forwards?
>
> On 04/03/03 19:04:20 -0800 Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
>
> > If you are willing to ensure that all your Actions use the same forward
> > name, you don't have to do anything at all to accomplish this goal. When
> > you call ActionMapping.findForward(), Struts checks the local forward
> > declarations first, and then the globals. So, if you say:
> >
> > return (mapping.findForward("mainMenu");
> >
> > in your doSomethingAction, since you don't have a local definition for
> > this forward you will automatically be using the global one. That way,
> > you only have to change one path if the URI of the page to be executed
> > changes.
>
> I am using this idea for some projects.
>
> My issue is that I want to be able to map "standard" results to various
> pages. I've been using ActionMessages to give feedback to the user instead
> of forwarding to a seperate "thank you" style page.
>
> So, for example, many of my actions forward back to the "list" page after
> putting something informative in the ActionMessages. If the page authors
> decide that some action needs to be forwarded to a specific page on
> "failure", I want them to be able to simply change the "failure" forward to
> something else.
>
Why don't you just create a local <forward name="failure"> inside the
<action> for only those actions that need something different than the
global one? For all other actions, the global one will be used.
> Would this be difficult to implement?
>
I'm still not understanding why you cannot do what you want with Struts
the way it is.
> Thanks,
>
> A.
>
> --
> Adam Sherman
Craig
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