Hi
You could put the message in a session attribute and then get the second
action to check for the attribute
and display it if found (remembering to remove it once displayed) .
How to get access to the session is in the Struts 2 faq.
Nick
Dariusz Wojtas wrote:
>
> Excellent hint, thanks.
> I forgot I may jump between various methods this way in the struts config.
> This will perfectly work in the case I described.
>
> Any idea how to solve the problem with various messages or errors to
> be displayed, when I have no control on the messages/errors being
> added?
>
> Dariusz Wojtas
>
> On 12/30/06, Nick Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>> If you are always going to display the same message then you could get
>> the
>> action you redirect
>> to to display the message. I have done this to get "Processing
>> Successful"
>> messages output after
>> updates
>> e.g.
>> in your action:-
>> return "missingid";
>>
>> redirect this result to a method in your other action
>> <result name="missingid" type="redirect-action">input!noId</result>
>>
>> and in the method output your message before doing your normal
>> processing
>>
>> public String noId() {
>> addActionError(getText("some.id.not.set"));
>> return execute();
>> }
>>
>> N
>>
>>
>> Dariusz Wojtas wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have some action [/namespace/edit.action] which cannot be called
>> > without ID.
>> > In fact the ID parameter is needed under some conditions.
>> >
>> > Therefore if I do not have ID when it is needed I add error message
>> > and redirect to INPUT:
>> >
>> > addActionError(getText("some.id.not.set"));
>> > return INPUT
>> >
>> > How do I define my action to redirect to another action (not a JSP)
>> > AND keep the message so it can be displayed?
>> > I tried to configure my result in different ways
>> >
>> > a) try result type 'chain' - pointing to another action name in the
>> > same package (does not need any params)
>> > <action name="edit" class="package.MyAction" method="edit">
>> > <result>/WEB-INF/jsp/pages/package/input.jsp</result>
>> > <result name="input" type="chain">index</result>
>> > </action>
>> >
>> > b) I tried result type 'redirect', 'redirect-action'
>> > but then I loose my error message
>> >
>> > c) I tried 'dispatcher' to a fully qualified action URL
>> > <result name="input"
>> > type="dispatcher">/package/index.action</result>
>> > but then I get exception from Tomcat:
>> >
>> > HTTP Status 404 - /<appPrefix>/package/index.action
>> > The requested resource (/<appPrefix>/package/index.action) is not
>> > available.
>
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