action mapping - how can I map ALL incoming urls to one action?

2008-02-13 Thread Galia Angelova
Hallo everybody, I use struts version 2.0.11 with spring 2.0.5. I need to map all incomming urls to one and the same action. This action works like a dispatcher - acctording to some data taken from the data base, decides where to redirect the request. I''ll appreciate any ideas! Thanks!

Re: action mapping - how can I map ALL incoming urls to one action?

2008-02-13 Thread Piero Sartini
I need to map all incomming urls to one and the same action. This action works like a dispatcher - acctording to some data taken from the data base, decides where to redirect the request. I''ll appreciate any ideas! I think an Interceptor would be a better solution for this:

Re: action mapping - how can I map ALL incoming urls to one action?

2008-02-13 Thread Galia Angelova
Thank you, Piero! The problem with the interseptors is that they come after the ServletDispatcher. That means that i get an exception before I get to the interseptors, because the mapping was not found :) I think I have found a solution - custom ActionMapper. I extended the

Re: action mapping - how can I map ALL incoming urls to one action?

2008-02-13 Thread Laurie Harper
That's probably the best approach if you want to map incoming requests to different actions based on custom logic. If you really just want to have every request handled by the same action, you can just use a wildcard action mapping (name=/*) to achieve that with less configuration. L. Galia