Thanks, I will do it this way.
It would be nice, rather than having to do this work-around with an extra
action mapping that is just used as a forward, to be able to refer to global
forwards directly in the action mapping. Are there any plans to add this
feature?
>From: Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Can I Use logical name for path of local forwards?
>Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 06:12:07 -0400
>
>How about this:
>
><action path="/maauto/quote"
> type="MyClass">
> <forward name="success" path="/maauto/done.do"/>
>
><action path="/maauto/done"
> forward="/myapp/apage.jsp"
>/>
>
>
>Ellen Kraffmiller wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I have a question regarding local forwards.
> > It seems that a popular way to avoid hardcoding navigation in your
>action
> > class is to have a local forward named "success", that can be updated in
> > your struts-config.xml:
> >
> > <action path="/maauto/quote"
> > type="MyClass">
> > <forward name="success" path="/myapp/apage.jsp"/>
> > </action>
> >
> > What if I have multiple actions, and each one should go to
>/myapp/apage.jsp
> > in case of "success" - do I have to hard code the path for each local
> > forward?
> >
> > It would be nice to be able to define a global forward, and use its
>logical
> > name in my local forwards:
> >
> > <global-forwards>
> > <forward name="home" path="/myapp/apage.jsp"/>
> > </global-forwards>
> >
> > <action path="/maauto/quote"
> > type="MyClass">
> > <forward name="success" path="home"/>
> > </action>
> >
> > I haven't seen anything in the docs that says this is allowed. Maybe
>there's
> > some other way of using a logical name for the success forward, rather
>than
> > hard coding it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ellen
> >
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