Vic,
Not including the query parameter at the end of <html:form action="..."> sounds
like a definite bug. Could you please post a bug report to our bug tracking
system:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/
with your test case, so that we make sure it gets attention?
Thanks,
Craig
"Fickes, Vic" wrote:
> To answer the question, I'm using IE5.5.
>
> However, I discovered the immediate problem, which turns out to be simple,
> but then it gets complicated again.
>
> First off, the double posting appears to be caused by specifying both an
> action attribute on the form tag and an onClick attribute on the submit tag.
> For example:
>
> <html:form action="/test.do?action=Cancel">
>
> <html:submit property="store" value="Store"
>
> onClick="performAction(this.form,'/test.do?action=Store')"/>
>
> I am using the JavaScript function I found an archive listing regarding how
> to set multiple actions in a form....
> function performAction(theForm, theAction)
> {
> theForm.action = theAction;
> theForm.submit();
> }
>
> As you can see, both "actions" also specify an "action" parameter, the same
> as is used in the struts-example application. The wierd thing, though, is
> that the action parameter specified in the action attribute of the form tag
> is ignored. That is, there are 2 postings but both times the action
> parameter takes on the value given in the onClick action. If I remove the
> onClick attribute, I get 1 posting with the action parameter taken from the
> form's action attribute.
>
> The obvious thing to try then, would be to remove the form's action
> attribute and just use the submit's onClick attribute. However, this causes
> an exception (at least in my WLS5.1SP8 environment), which complains that
> the "required" action attribute is missing. I don't understand this because
> the action attribute isn't required in the struts-form tld. Why is this
> happening?
>
> Anyway, the above observations were based on using the struts build from 14
> Feb.
> So then I decided to try the V1 beta 1 build.
>
> The results are very similar except that now the form's action attribute
> does NOT set the action parameter at all. That is, if I remove the submit's
> onClick attribute, there is only 1 posting, but the action parameter does
> not get defined (request.getParameter("action") returns null). This is a
> bug isn't it? If I go back to setting both the form's action attribute and
> the submit's onClick attribute, I get 2 postings and the action parameter is
> set from the onClick.
>
> I hope I explained this cleary enough. Whether or not the problem with the
> form's action attribute is a bug, I'd still like to know if there is a way
> to use the onClick attribute without getting a double posting.
>
> Regards,
> Vic
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Neal Kaiser [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 10:33 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: perform() called twice
> >
> > This is a little out-there, but, by any chance are you using Netscape 6
> > and Frontpage for your JSP editor?
> >
> > I found a bug in Netscape 6 that causes a page to be submitted twice (when
> > actually pressing it once) if there are certain Frontpage META tags in
> > your
> > page.
> >
> > The solution for us was to remove the frontpage meta tags it
> > auto-generates.
> >
> > One way to tell would be by doing a tail on your access_log file. If you
> > see
> > two
> > requests, then that might be the problem.
> >
> > Neal
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Anand Raman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 6:58 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: perform() called twice
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Vic
> > > The action perform method is called once for every submission..
> > >
> > > When u hit the submit button the ActionFromBean is populated and then
> > > the controller passes on the control to the Action class perform
> > > method.
> > >
> > > U then return any appropriate action forward method from the same
> > > perform method .
> > >
> > > I am not sure why u get 2 calls to the perform method.. Maybe posting
> > > sections of code can help..
> > >
> > > Anand
> > >
> > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:38:18PM -0500, Fickes, Vic wrote:
> > > >Hi,
> > > >I am trying to understand the sequence of events that take
> > > place using a
> > > >simple test <html:form>. When the form's action is
> > > submitted, it causes the
> > > >Action.perform() method to be called twice in the same
> > > request. I thought
> > > >it might have something to do with the forward that is returned from
> > > >perform() so I returned null, and it still does it. Is this
> > > the expected
> > > >behavior? I don't think this is happening in the example
> > > application, so it
> > > >must be something I am doing, but I can't figure out what.
> > > Any ideas would
> > > >be appreciated.
> > > >Thanks,
> > > >Vic
> > >
