Billy, Just out of curiosity, why would you provide direct links for the paths of a mapping's local forwards? I can imagine a couple of scenarios where it might be useful to generate links for the paths of each mapping, but I don't get doing that for local forwards. If you link directly to a local forward, you effectively bypass the action that would normally operate on the request before doing a forward or redirect to that forward's path. Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not sure the links will operate the way you're expecting.
Billy Ng wrote:
>
> I knew somebody would ask me why :-)
>
> Okay, I am using the String[] that returns from mapping.findForwards() to
> generate links in the left nav bar. This way, I will only generate the
> links for the Action I call. For example,
>
> <action path="/project"
> type="com.evebill.billyng.ui.about_me.AboutMeBase"
> name="AboutMeAction">
> <forward name="bridge" path="/jsp/about_me/bridge.jsp"/>
> <forward name="subway" path="/jsp/about_me/subway.jsp"/>
> <forward name="library" path="/jsp/about_me/library.jsp"/>
> </action>
>
> String[] forwards = mapping.findForwards();
> for (int i=0; i< forwards.length; i++) {
> ActionForward forward = mapping,findForward(forwards[i]);
> out.print("<A href=\""+forward.getPath()+"\">"+forward.getName()+"</A>";
> }
>
> I know I am lazy, but it works very good except the sorting. That's why I
> want the elements of the String[] has the order I put in struts-conf.xml
>
> Billy Ng
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eddie Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 8:23 AM
> Subject: Re: preserve Forward order
>
> > I'm not sure what you're trying to do. Most generally, folks use
> > 'mapping.findForward( "success")' -- or something very close to it.
> > That returns the forward in question. Why do you need the whole list?
> >
> > Billy Ng wrote:
> >
> > >When I use mapping.findForwards(), it returns me the sorted forward
> names. How can I get the forward names in the same order as in the
> struts-conf.xml?
> > >
> > >Thanks!
> > >
> > >Billy Ng
> > >
> >
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