I may be wrong, but I believe the suggested work-around is to use a refresh of the 'status page'.
Anyone? Other suggestions welcome =) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kanoza, Douglas (NCI)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 12:59 PM Subject: RE: ActionForward question > I'm interested in the answer to this one myself. I was wondering if you > could use the Response object to stream status messages out to the user. > Has anybody done anything like that? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Bednarz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 11:58 AM > To: struts user list > Subject: ActionForward question > > Hi, > > Is it possible to send pages to a browser depending on the processing status > of an action? Lets say you have to process a long operation in the > background such as a credit card validation or the like, is it possible to > show the user an intermediate page telling him that some work is in progress > and then show the result page when it is generated? > > In the Action class it looks like this: > > // test if session is valid > af = super.validateForm(form, mapping, request); > if (af != null) return af; > // test if a form has already been delivered > if ((ContainerName == null) || (ContainerName.length() < 1)) //show > form > { > saveToken(request); > return (new > ActionForward("/Templates/Forms/ShowEnumNTGGForm.vm")); > } > > if (this.isTokenValid(request)) > { > resetToken(request); > // > **************************************************************************** > *********************** > // START PROCESSING HERE THIS COULD LAST 30 SECONDS OR > MORE.... > // IF I ADD SOMETHING LIKE A new ActionForward("some status > message URL"); THE > // FOLLOWING CODE WILL EXECUTE BUT THE FORWARD AT THE BOTTOM > WILL NEVER > // REACH THE BROWSER ! > // > **************************************************************************** > *************************** > try > { > container = getNTContainer("Domain", ContainerName, > request); > request.setAttribute("NTContainer", container); > } catch (SmartSolException e) > { > errors.add(ActionErrors.GLOBAL_ERROR, > new ActionError("error.exception.smartsol", new > Integer(e.ErrorCode).toString(), e.File ,e.ErrorMsg)); > } > } else > { > errors.add(ActionErrors.GLOBAL_ERROR, new > ActionError("error.BePatient")); > } > // Report any errors we have discovered back to the original form > af = super.processErrors(errors, mapping, request); > if (af != null) > { > log.debug("finished perform with errors."); > return (af); > } > // Forward control to the specified success URI > log.debug("finished perform with success"); > return (new ActionForward("/Templates/NTAccounts/EnumNTGG.vm")); > ------- end quote -------------------------- > > How can this problem be solved? > > Many thanks! > > Thomas > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
