David,
I am doing something similiar in an application I am working on.
While I am not stripping the slash, I am modifying the path returned by
an action mapping by adding parameters to it without modifying any
Struts code.
I recommend this solution (or something similar): Write an extension of
ActionForward called SlashlessActionForward. Make the constructor of
this object take an Action forward object like this:
public SlashlessActionForward(ActionForward forward) {
setName(forward.getName());
setPath(forward.getPath());
setRedirect(forward.getRedirect());
}
now, override the getPath() method to return the path without the slash.
(you would also need to overide setPath() to set a String property in
your class)
you can now use this in an ActionClass perform method like this:
SlashlessActionForward forward =
new SlashlessActionForward(mapping.findForward("success"));
return forward;
Bill
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> As a result, we are considering hacking the Struts code in a couple of
> places to strip the absolute slash off of the front of the action
> reference path name before writing the HTML, and then re-adding it back
> again on the action mapping. After some investigation, it appears that
> this hack can be isolated to two spots:
> ew taglibs for the rest of time.
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> Preliminary testing would indicate that this hack does seem to work, but
> I can't help but wonder: are we missing something? Is there an easier,
> more elegant way to achieve relative paths in action parameter
> references?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David McLure
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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