If you have complex session initialization logic in an Action and you want to use it in the Filter, I'd suggest factoring it out into a utility class. Alternatively, don't try to use the filter to do this: the main reason to use a filter is to apply common logic upon every request (or at least many requests); if you have all this in an Action now, that suggests you only use it once.
You could probably also somehow use the Filter to set a request attribute, and then subclass the RequestProcessor to recognize that request attribute as an instruction to invoke your session-prep action -- but that seems way more complicated than you really need.
Joe
At 12:45 PM -0500 3/29/05, Frank W. Zammetti wrote:
response.sendRedirect(url);
That's what I do. You do get a reference to request, so I would assume you could get a dispatcher off it and do what you always do. I've never had a need to try it though.
-- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com
On Tue, March 29, 2005 12:40 pm, Denis Avdic said:Hello all,
Although I've been using Struts for small projects for a while now, I haven't really used filters. Now I am incorporating some functionality from another project into mine, and the other project used plain old servlets and filters.
My question is this:
In filter's doFilter method, is there a way to forward to a Struts action somehow? I need to populate the session and I have all this stuff already written, I just need to do a forward to the action somehow. How could I do this without request.getRequestDispatcher() calls? Or can I do it at all?
I haven't wrote pure servlet in a looooong long while and I forgot a lot of things so please excuse me if my question is dumb.
Thanks,
Denis
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