The accountId value is in the query string of the request and therefore must
be retrieved like:
String accountIdValue = request.getParameter("accountId");
robert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shih-gian Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 7:24 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: How to retrieve parameters passed via GET method?
>
>
> > In my Struts configuration file, an action element is defined as the
> > following:
> > <action path="/closeAccount"
> > type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction"
> > parameter="/closeAccount.jsp" />
> >
> > When customer clicks on the hyperlink, ActionServlet receives the HTTP
> > request, pre-processes it and forwards it to
> ForwardAction, who will simply forward the request to closeAccount.jsp. That
> page then asks customer to confirm the
> operation ("are you sure that you want to close account No. 100?"). The
> problem is, ActionServlet seems to have modified
> the request, so in my closeAccount.jsp, i cannot retrieve the accountId
> parameter: request.getAttribute("accountId") returns null.
> >
> > I dumped the contents in the HTTP request that closeAccount.jsp receives.
> > They look like this:
> > javax.servlet.forward.request_uri = /badba/closeAccount.do
> > javax.servlet.forward.context_path = /badba
> javax.servlet.forward.servlet_path = /closeAccount.do
> javax.servlet.forward.query_string = accountId=100
> org.apache.struts.action.mapping.instance =
> ActionConfig[path=/closeAccount,parameter=/closeAccount.jsp,scope=session,type=org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction
> org.apache.struts.action.MODULE = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
> Is it possible that the accountId is saved in session scope instead of
> request scope?
>
> You need to specify the scope if you want to save it in "request" scope:
>
> <action path="/closeAccount"
> type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction"
> parameter="/closeAccount.jsp" scope="request"/>
>
> HTH.
>
> Lee
>
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