Can somebody give me a helping hand or some advice concerning the problem
mentioned below?
Dirk Forchel wrote:
>
> I know this might not be the right place for posting my problem. Probably
> the Struts - User forum might be the better place. But I don't get the
> feeling, that this issue is the right place for this forum.
> Here is a short explanation about my yet unsolved problem:
>
> First of all I use Struts 2.0.14, Tiles 2 and Tomcat 6.0.16.
> I have a search form like ...
>
> <s:form action="search">
> <s:textfield name="searchString" value="%{searchString}"/>
> <s:submit />
> </s:form>
>
> defined in a form.search.jsp which is included in different pages
> (actually I use tiles 2), e.g. welcome.jsp, product.jsp, category.jsp and
> on the search.result.jsp as well (which displays the result list).
> I have a base action called ForwardAction which does nothing more than
> rendering the HTML pages with all the used properties and additionaly put
> each HTTP request on a defined stack (e.g. /welcome.action,
> /category.action, /product.action, /searchResult.action but not the
> actually search itself, cos this is not a "forward"). The definition in
> struts.xml looks like
>
> <action name="welcome" class="com.foo.ForwardAction">
> <result type="tiles">welcomePage</result>
> </action>
>
> The SearchResultAction extends the ForwardAction and does some additional
> work with the search result list (pagination, sorting etc.)
>
> <action name="searchResult" class="com.foo.SearchResultAction">
> <result type="tiles">searchResultPage</result>
> </action>
>
> The search action itself is defined as
>
> <action name="search" class="com.foo.SearchAction">
> <result type="redirect-action">searchResult</result>
> <result name="input" type="dispatcher">${referer}</result>
> </action>
>
> and searches with the given search term for known products on a database.
> Now my problem ...
> If a validation error occurs on my search form (a missing search term),
> the ValidationInterceptor would intercept the action invocation and would
> dispatch/forward to the ${referer} defined as "input" result. My
> SearchAction implements the Prepareable interface and set the "referer"
> property in my prepare method:
>
> @Override
> public void prepare() throws Exception {
> referer = request.getHeader( "Referer" );
> if (referer==null)
> referer = request.getContextPath();
> }
>
> If a validation error occurs on my welcome page, the dispatcher should go
> to the welcome page (referer = http://localhost:9001/welcome.action). If I
> have a validation error on the category page, the dispatcher for the input
> result should go to http://localhost:9001/category.action. If I search on
> my search result page with the same form and the same search action the
> input dispatcher should go to http://localhost:9001/searchResult.action. I
> think this is a quite common doing that on a web application.
> But I got always the following HTTP 404 error. I reckon this has something
> to do with the application server (in my case Tomcat 6.0.16), the
> RequestDispatcher (ApplicationRequestDispatcher) and the Servlet context
> path. If I use a context path "/" for my web app, the error is the
> following.
>
> HTTP Status 404 - //https:/localhost:9001/welcome.action
>
> type Status report
>
> message //https:/localhost:9001/welcome.action
>
> description The requested resource
> (//https:/localhost:9001/welcome.action) is not available.
>
> If I use "" as context path, the resource
> "/https:/localhost:9001/welcome.action" is not available. If I would
> return a "static" URL like /jsp/pages/welcome.jsp the forward works fine.
> What could be wrong? Where do I miss the peace of cake?
>
> In my web.xml I have the following filter definition:
>
> <filter>
> <filter-name>struts</filter-name>
>
> <filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher</filter-class>
> </filter>
>
> <filter-mapping>
> <filter-name>struts</filter-name>
> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
> </filter-mapping>
>
> Thank You for your help.
>
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