RE: Maven struts2-archetype-starter error

2008-05-12 Thread Allen, Daniel
Add a -e (or it might be a capital -E) to the command, and Maven will print out the stack trace and a little more information about the problem. That might give you something to work with. -Original Message- From: maestro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 8:42 PM To:

[s2] Getting the current Action name in a JSP?

2008-05-12 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi, all. I'm using Sitemesh decorators on my Struts2 project to create a generic header menu. However, I'd like to use a CSS class to highlight the menu item for where the user currently is. Is there a good way to get the current action name and namespace just with JSP code? I know I can get it

RE: [s2] Getting the current Action name in a JSP?

2008-05-12 Thread Allen, Daniel
at 12:10 PM, Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all. I'm using Sitemesh decorators on my Struts2 project to create a generic header menu. However, I'd like to use a CSS class to highlight the menu item for where the user currently is. Is there a good way to get the current action

RE: [s2] Getting the current Action name in a JSP?

2008-05-12 Thread Allen, Daniel
in the stack. musachy On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the tip, but to clarify, what I want to know is whether that action reference has an easy, built-in way to get its name and namespace, as configured in struts.xml. For example, I have

RE: [s2] Getting the current Action name in a JSP?

2008-05-12 Thread Allen, Daniel
Subject: Re: [s2] Getting the current Action name in a JSP? %{#struts.actionMapping} -Action Mapping %{#action} - Last executed action musachy On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Dave Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So that's what #action gets? That's really

RE: [s2] Getting the current Action name in a JSP?

2008-05-12 Thread Allen, Daniel
Oh, ok. I was just in the middle of poking around the debug info to see why that wasn't working. Thanks, ~DVA -Original Message- From: Allen, Daniel Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 3:11 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [s2] Getting the current Action name in a JSP? Ok, thanks

RE: How to validate a checkboxlist?

2008-05-09 Thread Allen, Daniel
If you want client-side anything, wouldn't you want to use JavaScript? As far as I know, everything XWork validation does is on the server. (I would say have a validator in the action bean too, though, in case the use has JS disabled and manages to submit without passing that check.)

RE: 2 Dimensional arrays?

2008-05-09 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hmm. I don't know of a way to make Struts 2 give back 2-D array properties in the auto-magical way that it will do 1-D arrays (doesn't mean there's not one: I keep finding out that a lot of things I want to do can be done by magic if you know the correct XML incantation) but perhaps you could

RE: How to validate a checkboxlist?

2008-05-09 Thread Allen, Daniel
anyone ever done this? Allen, Daniel wrote: If you want client-side anything, wouldn't you want to use JavaScript? As far as I know, everything XWork validation does is on the server. (I would say have a validator in the action bean too, though, in case the use has JS disabled

RE: Action servlet becomes null in UNIX environment

2008-05-07 Thread Allen, Daniel
A couple of things strike me as really odd about this. First: why are you creating HTML using strings in Java code? The whole point of JSPs was to avoid doing exactly that. You should either make use of .jsp files and the logic tags in Struts [1] or just use regular servlets if you really want

RE: Action servlet becomes null in UNIX environment

2008-05-07 Thread Allen, Daniel
else i can do as i am unable to see anything in apache logs as well. On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of things strike me as really odd about this. First: why are you creating HTML using strings in Java code? The whole point of JSPs was to avoid

RE: Redirect-action parameters via POST

2008-04-25 Thread Allen, Daniel
and shorter. Nils-H On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can, and I considered that, but I was hoping to keep it in the XML to minimize the number of files that need to be changed. The documentUpload action that's the redirect target below is actually

RE: Building First strut

2008-04-25 Thread Allen, Daniel
Actually, I found Maven very helpful when I was starting Struts2. http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/struts-maven-archetypes.html has some information on the archetype plugin, which Maven can use to generate the empty shell of an application. That's great for beginners because all the

RE: Building First strut

2008-04-25 Thread Allen, Daniel
Did you read the page I linked? The archetype creator writes you a basic POM, in addition to many other things. If you don't read the answers people give you, this list won't be of any help to you. -Original Message- From: Vinay Nagrik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 25,

Redirect-action parameters via POST

2008-04-24 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi, all. I'm using the snippet below[1] in my struts.xml file to send finish an action with a redirect to another, and sending a parameter along. However, Struts 2 defaults to passing the parameter via appending it to the URL in a GET request. I'm going to need to add additional parameters, some

RE: Redirect-action parameters via POST

2008-04-24 Thread Allen, Daniel
Mailing List Subject: Re: Redirect-action parameters via POST Can you put the info on the session? Nils-H On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all. I'm using the snippet below[1] in my struts.xml file to send finish an action with a redirect to another

Exception like a missing JAR, but I think I have them all

2008-04-22 Thread Allen, Daniel
When I try to start up my Struts 2/Spring project, I get an exception about a missing class, which makes me think I have a missing JAR, but I can't find mention of anything that isn't already in my build. Could anyone take a look, perhaps? I have the following entries in my Maven POM. Am

RE: Exception like a missing JAR, but I think I have them all

2008-04-22 Thread Allen, Daniel
Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:47 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Exception like a missing JAR, but I think I have them all --- Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to start up my Struts 2/Spring project, I get an exception about

RE: How to use Autocompleter like GMail style.

2008-04-10 Thread Allen, Daniel
The showcase [1] has an autocompleter example page with demonstrations of several of its features and accompanying source. ~DVA [1] http://www.planetstruts.org/struts2-showcase/ajax/autocompleter/ -Original Message- From: Joey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008

Scope of action messages?

2008-04-01 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi, all. I'm trying to display a message to the user to confirm that a new user was created, basic par-for-the-course concept. However, I'm finding that my s:actionmessage/ tag doesn't render to anything. The first thing I thought of was that my result for the user creation is an action-redirect,

RE: Scope of action messages?

2008-04-01 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hmmm... How much interfering in the internals do you suppose I'd have to do to make action errors messages hang around until the corresponding s:action___/ tag is rendered? -Original Message- From: Chris Pratt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:58 PM To: Struts

RE: Scope of action messages?

2008-04-01 Thread Allen, Daniel
(sorry, I had the interceptor name wrong on the last mail). (*Chris*) On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm... How much interfering in the internals do you suppose I'd have to do to make action errors messages hang around until the corresponding

Inheritence of validator annotations

2008-04-01 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi, all. I have a superclass where almost all of the subclasses will require several validations for a particular field, but one subclass will use some but not all of those validations. I know that you can add @SkipValidation to avoid all validators, but is there something that you can use to

RE: Using Javascript to change struts-generated forms

2008-03-24 Thread Allen, Daniel
- I'm not sure that order is guaranteed when you have two params with the same name at time they are submitted. I thought multiple parameters with the same name is how Struts did actions with array-typed properties. That's what's done on the File Uploads How-To.[1] Is that example potentially

Using Javascript to change struts-generated forms

2008-03-20 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi, all. I'm working on a form that would allow some arbitrary number of documents to be uploaded at once. The idea is that by default, one set of document fields appears, and there's a link that a user can click to activate some javascript that would add another set of document fields. I have

[S2] Upload file cannot be read

2008-03-18 Thread Allen, Daniel
Can anyone tell me where I can get some more in-depth details on the way the file upload interceptor works? Is there any documentation between the levels of how to use it and the source code? I'm trying to take an uploaded document and then transfer it to a backend in a different thread. But when

RE: property in s:* not interpreted

2008-03-13 Thread Allen, Daniel
I actually thought you couldn't nest s:* tags. You can nest them in regular HTML tags because the JSP and the HTML are interpreted at different steps, so from the separate perspectives of the two parsers there's not really any nesting going on (the JSP parser on the server only cares about JSP

[s2] IndexedProperties set via forms

2008-03-06 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi, all. I have a question about using indexed properties. I need to have the user upload some arbitrary (to be dynamically increased via Javascript while the user is on the form page) number of files as part of a form. I figured it makes sense to create an indexed property so that then I have a

RE: [s2] IndexedProperties set via forms

2008-03-06 Thread Allen, Daniel
Wow, in the FAQs, even. My Google-fu is miserable. Thanks/sorry. ~DVA -Original Message- From: Dave Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 6:02 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [s2] IndexedProperties set via forms --- Allen, Daniel [EMAIL

RE: Struts serving both HTML requests and web service?

2008-02-29 Thread Allen, Daniel
requests and web service? If you have shared functionality then it sounds like a good candidate for web services. I wouldn't do the shared JAR deal. Regards, Randy Burgess Sr. Web Applications Developer Nuvox Communications From: Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List

Struts serving both HTML requests and web service?

2008-02-28 Thread Allen, Daniel
I saw a thread go by while back about Struts and web services, and someone suggested Spring and CXF. I've got Spring integrated into my Struts (2.0.11) application, but I'm not familiar with CXF at all, nor have I actually ever put together a web service before. Does anyone know of a good guide

RE: Struts serving both HTML requests and web service?

2008-02-28 Thread Allen, Daniel
. http://incubator.apache.org/cxf/ Regards, Randy Burgess Sr. Web Applications Developer Nuvox Communications From: Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List user@struts.apache.org Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:20:54 -0500 To: Struts Users Mailing List user

RE: Need Help Creating a Custom Validator

2008-02-27 Thread Allen, Daniel
Try this: http://opensource.atlassian.com/confluence/oss/download/attachments/4942 /validating-input.pdf?version=3 Basically, all you need to do for custom or complex validation is to have the action in question implement Validateable, and then have a public void validate() method that makes

[s2] Validation, but not the first time

2008-02-22 Thread Allen, Daniel
I've set up a login page for my site, and I've used the ValidationAware interface on LoginAction in order to display errors on the login form when the user name or password is incorrect. However, this has one unintended result: the first time the user navigates to server.com/webapp/login.action,

RE: [s2] Validation, but not the first time

2008-02-22 Thread Allen, Daniel
even require any more Java code. Thanks! ~Dan --- Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to prevent the validation from firing unless the user is coming back to it after attempting to log in? By default the validation interceptor won't check a set of action methods, including

RE: Looping in Struts2

2008-02-22 Thread Allen, Daniel
You mean in JSPs, using the Struts taglib? There's an example that I think is similar to what you're looking for at the bottom of the s:iterator page[1]. For large n, it would be sort of ugly, though, so definitely look into c:foreach like Dave said if you're going past single-digit n. ~Dan Allen

Redirecting to somewhere determined by previous page's parameters

2008-02-22 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi, all. I want to redirect a user somewhere based on a parameter that came in from a previous page's form. The basic flow should be: 1. StartPage.jsp, contains a form that points to an SomeAction, and that form includes the parameter NextPage 2. SomeAction performs some work and then gives back

RE: reflect.InvocationTargetException

2008-02-21 Thread Allen, Daniel
I've seen similar things working with other programs than Struts, but it might be relevant to you. Reflection frameworks tend to give back null rather than an exception when the method in question isn't found, so go back and check for typos in your XML where you specify any method names. Can't

Extending interceptor stacks

2008-02-21 Thread Allen, Daniel
Is there a way to have one interceptor stack defined in terms of another? I created a log-in interceptor to check if a user is logged in and redirect him/her to the log-in page if not, and it will be applied to almost all pages, but there will be a few (index, etc.) that would not need that.

[s2] Forward directly to JSP w/o processing

2008-02-13 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi. I have a few places in my web app where a URL goes to a page that is more or less static. We still use JSPs for these static pages, since we're looking to use Tiles to re-use header/footer code and so on. Currently, though, my attempts to get Struts2 are just yielding no response on the

RE: [OT] RE: Beging in Strust 2 with Jdeveloper 10.1.3

2008-02-13 Thread Allen, Daniel
Have you, in fact, added the struts2 filter to your web.xml? If not, drop the following in: filter filter-namestruts2/filter-name filter-classorg.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher/filter-cla ss /filter filter-mapping

Logic tag library

2008-02-13 Thread Allen, Daniel
Is there any reason we shouldn't use the Logic tab library (http://struts.apache.org/tags-logic) with Struts 2? If so, is there any subsitute? I'm looking specifically for logic:redirect and logic:messagesPresent (along with the old html: messages) ~Dan Allen -Original Message- From:

RE: Logic tag library

2008-02-13 Thread Allen, Daniel
- From: Dave Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:36 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Logic tag library --- Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reason we shouldn't use the Logic tab library (http://struts.apache.org/tags-logic

RE: Source for Struts Tiles Plugin?

2008-02-12 Thread Allen, Daniel
Great. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Dave Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 5:14 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Source for Struts Tiles Plugin? --- Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded this source code, but it's just

RE: Source for Struts Tiles Plugin?

2008-02-12 Thread Allen, Daniel
://struts.apache.org/download.cgi and follow the archive link http://archive.apache.org/dist/struts/. I believe there is a S2.0.9 source distro there. Dave --- Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: I'm looking for v2.0.9 specifically, if that makes any difference. -Original Message

RE: Source for Struts Tiles Plugin?

2008-02-12 Thread Allen, Daniel
Actually, after all that, it turned out to be a stupid typo: my context-param for DEFINITION_CONFIG pointed to tiles-def.xml and the file was titlted tiles-defs.xml... Thanks for the source link, though. That will no doubt continue to help. ~Dan Allen -Original Message- From: Lukasz

RE: Source for Struts Tiles Plugin?

2008-02-12 Thread Allen, Daniel
PS: I'm looking for v2.0.9 specifically, if that makes any difference. -Original Message- From: Allen, Daniel Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 2:44 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Source for Struts Tiles Plugin? Hi. I'm trying to move a web app from Struts1/Tiles1 to Struts2

Source for Struts Tiles Plugin?

2008-02-12 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi. I'm trying to move a web app from Struts1/Tiles1 to Struts2/Tiles2. Unsurprisingly, quite a few things are going wrong. In particular, I have a tiles-def.xml file in WEB-INF/classes, and it's not being picked up, or at least not being read properly. I was able to trace through the definitions

RE: Basic setup question (tiles 2)

2008-02-11 Thread Allen, Daniel
I replaced the dependency I had before with the dependency you gave, but Maven's generated /lib directory still does not contain tiles-jsp.jar, and the error message has not changed: javax.servlet.ServletException: The absolute uri: http://tiles.apache.org/tags-tiles cannot be resolved in either

Struts 2 equivalents?

2008-02-11 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hey. I have to convert an application written with Struts and Tiles 1 to 2. Could anyone tell me what the Struts2 equivalents for some of the old Struts1 tag libraries are? I'm looking specifically for http://struts.apache.org/tags-html and http://struts.apache.org/tags-logic Unfortunately,

RE: Basic setup question (tiles 2)

2008-02-11 Thread Allen, Daniel
Nevermind, I found the proper XML for the tiles-jsp jar. I'm curious as to what exactly is in the plugin jar that you suggested, though. Is that necessary to use Tiles 2 with Struts 2? ~Dan -Original Message- From: Allen, Daniel Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 2:53 PM To: Struts Users

RE: Struts 2 equivalents?

2008-02-11 Thread Allen, Daniel
' contents. Thanks ~Dan Allen -Original Message- From: Allen, Daniel Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 5:08 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Struts 2 equivalents? Ok, I found some documents that partly answer my question. However, I'm still looking for a Struts2 equivalent

RE: Struts 2 equivalents?

2008-02-11 Thread Allen, Daniel
Ok, I found some documents that partly answer my question. However, I'm still looking for a Struts2 equivalent to the old logic:messagesPresent tag. Do we just use s:if with some special test code now? -Original Message- From: Allen, Daniel Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:48 PM

RE: Basic setup question (tiles 2)

2008-02-11 Thread Allen, Daniel
No, I hadn't seen that. Thanks for pointing me to a useable tutorial site. You have no idea how hard it is to find Struts 2 or Tiles 2 information in Google, since every Struts 1 and Tiles 1 page on apache.org has a little text link to the new version that make the search think it's relevant to

Basic setup question (tiles 2)

2008-02-11 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi. I'm completely new at Struts and Tiles, but was given the task of converting an app that relied on the first versions of those to the the newer version. We build with Maven 2, and as instructed by the documentation at http://tiles.apache.org/dev/snapshots.html, I added