On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Shawn Sohl wrote:
> In my Action class I catch errors if they occur. What I want to know is can
> I create an "ActionErrors" object within my Action class and add an error to
> it like I do in a Form class. Basically what I want to do is shown in the
> code below. My .jsp page that "failure" points to has the "<html:errors/>"
> tag within it but it isnt picking up the error. I know I can create and set
> an attribute within the response object and pass the error that way but I
> thought I could use something like I'm trying to do below.
>
> catch(Exception e)
> {
> ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors();
> errors.add("error",new ActionError(e.getMessage());
> return mapping.findForward("failure");
> }
>
> Thanks
>
>
The Struts example application does something very similar to this in
LogonAction -- since that is where an invalid username/pasword combination
is detected. I think this is a reasonable design approach.
Craig
