Here's something I'm using to accomplish this:
http://www.systemmobile.com/wp/?p=114
It's pretty simple, but can be refit to be fairly complex.


On 6/14/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, my bad... it's not setURL, it's setPath.  It's actually a method
> of ForwardConfig, which ActionForward extends.  Look in the third table
> down in the link you sent, the section labeled "Methods inherited from
> class org.apache.struts.config.ForwardConfig".
> 
> That's what I get for going from memory ;)
> 
> Frank
> 
> Zarar Siddiqi wrote:
> > Where do you see the af.setURL(String) method in the ActionForward class?
> > http://struts.apache.org/api/org/apache/struts/action/ActionForward.html
> >
> > I had a similar problem where dynamic values needed to be passed in via
> > an ActionForward but I wasn't able to find something as simple as you
> > suggest. I had to store the values in session scope (because the
> > ActionForward had redirect=true) and then clean up the session in my
> > receiving code.
> >
> > So you store the values that you are passing in session scope for a
> > quick millisecond while you forward and then clean up once you're in the
> > called method.
> >
> > Zarar
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank W. Zammetti"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <user@struts.apache.org>
> > Cc: "Struts Users Mailing List" <user@struts.apache.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:27 AM
> > Subject: Re: Sending dynamic parameters to a forward
> >
> >
> >> You can, IIRC, append a query string to the URL returned by your
> >> forward... off the top of my head, it would look something like
> >> this... in
> >> Action 1:
> >>
> >> String param1Val = "someValue1";
> >> String param2Val = "someValue2";
> >> String queryString = "?param1=" + param1Val + "&param2 = " + param2Val;
> >> ActionForward af = new
> >> ActionForward(mapping.findForward("ForwardToAction2"));
> >> af.setURL(af.getURL() + queryString);
> >> return af;
> >>
> >> You'll probably want to encode the parameter values, I'd suggest Commons
> >> Codec for that.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Frank W. Zammetti
> >> Founder and Chief Software Architect
> >> Omnytex Technologies
> >> http://www.omnytex.com
> >>
> >> On Tue, June 14, 2005 7:52 am, tarek.nabil said:
> >>
> >>> Hi Everyone,
> >>>
> >>> I have an action (Action1) which when completed successfully, forwards
> >>> to another action (Action2). I need to be able to send dyanamic
> >>> parameters to Action2. I thought about putting the parameters as request
> >>> attributes, but the problem here is that Action2 can be called directly
> >>> using a link from some pages and this case, the parameters will be send
> >>> as request parameters rather than attributes.
> >>>
> >>> I can write code to look in the request attributes and if not found, it
> >>> can check the request parameters, but I was hoping there's another way
> >>> to do it. I thought about setting the redirect attribute to true on this
> >>> forward but I still wouldn't know how to append parameters with dynamic
> >>> values to the forward while forwarding to it from Action1.
> >>>
> >>> Any ideas?
> >>>
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