OK, I'm confused now. Your original question was about how you could alter the request URI in a filter. Now, however, you seem to be asking about how you can alter the request URI in a Struts Action class or in your own version of the Struts RequestProcessor. What are you really trying to do?
If you want to modify what the request object looks like to everyone, using a filter, my previous answer applies: Write a request wrapper which returns a different value than the original from methods such as getRequestURI(). If you want to do something inside of Struts, you'll have to make do with the RequestDispatcher, as someone else suggested. -- Martin Cooper > -----Original Message----- > From: jfc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 6:26 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: altering the request URI in a filter > > > Martin Cooper wrote: > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: jfc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >>Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 1:51 AM > >>To: Tomcat Users List > >>Subject: Re: altering the request URI in a filter > >> > >> > > > >[snip] > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>Thanks for the reply. How can I actually set the new value/s on the > >>request? I don't see any setter methods or any fields which > >>can be used > >>to hold the new value. > >> > >>The only setters I can see are setAttribute and setRequest. > >> > > > >Since you're the one implementing the wrapper class, you can > choose to add > >whatever methods you see fit. > > > >-- > >Martin Cooper > > > > > >>jfc > >> > >> > >> > >>-- > >>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]> > > > > > Hi Martin, > > If I create a request wrapper, I can add whatever state and > accessor or > other methods which may be useful to some other process that > knows that > they are there. What I am really asking is this: > > Because I am using struts, I have a ActionServlet and a request > processor which based on the request's stored URI, locates a mapping > which is defined in struts-config.xml and this mapping directs to a > handler (my action class). I want to be able to change the > URI (the one > which the framework uses to locate the mapping) so that a different > mapping will be selected. > > So I'm not talking about adding specific behaviour or state to the > request - I want to access the existing state and modify it > and have the > framework go about it's usual business of doing the delegating to my > action etc (based on the updated state). > > It is possible to override the ActionServlet and/or the request > processor in struts which may or may not be neccessary - depending on > what can be achieved from a filter. > > So I want to know where I could alter the request URI with > this change > being visible to what ever processes the request to select the struts > mapping. > > > cheers > jfc > > > > > -- > 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]>
