----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Smoak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 10:49 AM Subject: RE: LookupDispatchAction
> Nalini wrote: > > Alongside the 'school address' field I have a submit button, 'Find School' > that allows a user to enter part of the > > school name or address and hit this 'FindSchool' button which then goes > off to another page (selectSchool.jsp) > > that displays a list of matching schools. The user then clicks on their > chosen school on selectSchool.jsp and is > > then returned to the RegisterForm with the 'school name' and 'school > address' fields populated. > > I have exactly this flow in my own webapp, with the added complication that > the "Find School" part is used from multiple other forms. > > I use LDA for the editWhatever actions (Registration, in your case). Then I > "cheat" by sticking the name of the "editWhatever" action into the session > or request so I can use it to construct the "Go back where you came from" > ActionForward. > > My biggest problem was that there is no "go back where you came from" > inherent in the framework-- everything is forward-looking, do this, then go > forward to one of many places. Yes. That is a recognized issue in Struts. I have discussed this issue sometime ago. A *fix* to the problem is to use the *.do in the input attribute of the action mapping, something like the following one: <action path="/FooCRUDOperation" type="com.myco.editors.FooAction" name="FooForm" scope="request" input="/FooCRUDInput.do" parameter="dispatchAction"> <forward name="edit" path=".editor.foo.Update"/> <forward name="add" path=".editor.fooCreate"/> <forward name="view" path=".editor.fooView"/> <forward name="top" path=".editor.fooTop"/> </action> You have to write one additional class for the /FooCRUDInput.do action mapping in which you forward according to the request parameter "dispatchAction". > > -- > Wendy Smoak > Arizona State University > > Jing Netspread Carrier http://www.netspread.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
