On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Martin Cooper wrote:
> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:51:38 -0700
> From: Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 'Struts Developers List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: Path-mapped action and Struts 1.1 beta
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 3:46 PM
> > To: Struts Developers List
> > Subject: Re: Path-mapped action and Struts 1.1 beta
> >
> >
> > "Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
> > > No ... and (this time at least) not because of lack of
> > time. It is not at
> > > all obvious how to rig path mapping to the controller to
> > work together
> > > with the basic assumption of sub-applications that there is
> > a prefix for
> > > that subapp. All I can think of is requiring you to map
> > the controller
> > > once per subapp, which is both ugly and will require a
> > bunch of changes to
> > > the existing code that assumes there is only one mapping to
> > the controller
> > > servlet.
> > >
> > > Ideas, anyone?
> >
> > Underlying problem with modules and prefix mapping:
> >
> > Controller is inserting module name before "module-relative"
> > path. This
> > happens for all URIs, not just actions. So with
> > prefix-mapping, we'd not
> > only have /do/module1/action but /do/module/page.jsp.
> >
> > Killer kludge of the week:
> >
> > Use unknown action feature to trim servlet prefix from page requests.
> > When controller can't find the "page.jsp" action, it forward to a
> > standard unknown action that removes the servlet-mapping
> > prefix ("/do"),
> > and forwards again, this time to /module/page.jsp.
>
> Well, this suggests an interesting alternative to using a prefix for the
> default sub-app, knowing that the fact that no such sub-app is defined will
> cause the request to be sent to the default sub-app anyway... ;-)
>
Note that servlet containers follow exactly this kind of rule -- if the
container cannot match your request URI against the context path of any
known web application, it gives the request to the default webapp (the one
with a zero-length context path).
> --
> Martin Cooper
>
Craig
> >
> > =:0) Just kidding =:0)
> >
> > -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY US
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