Tim,
What servlet container are you trying this on? Your assumptions about
what is *supposed* to work are correct (with one minor correction -- the
extra path info will be "/user" instead of "user"), so it could be either
a bug in Struts or a bug in the servlet container you are running on.
Craig McClanahan
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Tim Trentham wrote:
> I'm trying to use extra path info as a way to pass parameters to my actions.
> I changed the mapping from the default *.do to something like /execute/*.
> This works fine except that if I add extra information and try to submit, I
> get a 400 error telling me that I have submitted an invalid path.
>
> For example, I had a mapping called show.do which has now been changed to
> /execute/show. Now, if I try to submit /execute/show/user, expecting to have
> "user" passed to the show servlet as part of the extra path info accessed by
> request.getPathInfo(), I get the invalid path error. It works if I add
> another action mapping in the struts-config.xml that looks like this
>
> <action path="/show/user" type="com.mypackage.ShowAction">
> <forward name="/show/user" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/user.jsp"/>
> </action>
>
> This means that I have to have a separate action mapping for each different
> thing that I'd like an action to perform even though they're using the same
> action.
>
> I was expecting to be able to have something like this in the
> struts-config.xml:
>
> <action path="/show" type="com.mypackage.ShowAction">
> <forward name="/show/user" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/user.jsp"/>
> <forward name="/show/group" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/group.jsp"/>
> </action>
>
> Instead, I have to do this:
>
> <action path="/show/user" type="com.mypackage.ShowAction">
> <forward name="/show/user" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/user.jsp"/>
> </action>
>
> <action path="/show/group" type="com.mypackage.ShowAction">
> <forward name="/show/group" path="/WEB-INF/jsp/group.jsp"/>
> </action>
>
> The idea behind this is that I can have one action that basically just
> passes through the extra path info and forwards to the correct page based on
> that info.
>
> Is there another way to set this up so that you don't have to have an action
> mapping that matches the extra path info?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tim
>
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> Tim Trentham
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