Doh! I tried that with request.getParameter()
Duh - the difference is wonderfully obvious now! Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 4:10 PM To: struts-user Subject: Re: Passing a parameter into an action from the action mapping? At 4:11 PM -0400 2002/06/18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I thought I saw a solution for this somewhere but I cannot find it... set the value of the "parameter" attribute, then use "mapping.getParameter()" in the action. It's not a dumb idea at all -- it's the kind of reusability that Struts makes easy... Joe >I have the following set up... > ><action-mappings> ><action path="/index" parameter="" unknown="true" >forward="plantsec.mainmenu"> ><forward name="success" path="plantsec.mainmenu" redirect="false" /> ></action> ><action path="/todo" parameter="" forward="plantsec.todo" /> ><action path="/createNew" parameter="" >type="com.ebind.plantsec.create.actionCreateNew" name="formNewRequest" >input="plantsec.create.new" scope="request"> ><forward name="continue" path="plantsec.create.new" redirect="false" /> ><forward name="success" path="plantsec.mainmenu" redirect="false" /> ></action> ><action path="/search" parameter="" >type="com.ebind.plantsec.search.actionSearch" /> ><action path="/search1w" parameter="" >type="com.ebind.plantsec.search.actionSearch" /> ><action path="/search2w" parameter="" >type="com.ebind.plantsec.search.actionSearch" /> ><action path="/search4w" parameter="" >type="com.ebind.plantsec.search.actionSearch" /> ><action path="/searchAllFuture" parameter="" >type="com.ebind.plantsec.search.actionSearch" /> ><action path="/searchAllPast" parameter="" >type="com.ebind.plantsec.search.actionSearch" /> ></action-mappings> > >All of my calls to Search are the same, just with a different duration. >I was looking at dispatch, but these are all from links so I would need >to do /search.do?dur=1week > >Is there a way in the action mapping to say when they go to /search1w.do >it forwards them into the same action with some sort of parameter? > >Or is it just a dumb ass idea and should I just do the dispatch? > > > > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- -- * Joe Germuska { [EMAIL PROTECTED] } "It's pitiful, sometimes, if they've got it bad. Their eyes get glazed, they go white, their hands tremble.... As I watch them I often feel that a dope peddler is a gentleman compared with the man who sells records." --Sam Goody, 1956 tune in posse radio: <http://www.live365.com/stations/289268> -- 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]>
