Hi All, you mentioned a very valid point in your mail. How would you solve a windows look and feel that customers like so much described below. - Having an input screen with several tabs (general + account info + user info...) - Having lots of those prevents you from beeing willing to separate 1 Action per Tab (would lead to 5 - tabs * 20 input screens = lots of actions having similar stuff inside) - When deciding to have one action for all that 5 tabs i would be in trouble when using the validation? As you state you would have only one input page you get forwarded to in case of error?! - Even if you use one Action only you would need LOTs of ActionPaths if you solve it that way -> how about maintainability of a struts.config having serveral 100 ActionPathes?
Thanks for any comments :-) Alex Send reply to: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Kamholz, Keith (corp-staff) USX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Still struggeling: howto get ActionForward to calling page Date sent: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:13:29 -0400 [ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] This is definitely what I would do. And just to be more clear, I would copy that action mapping into as many new ones as you need. Just change the name and input page, then you should be all set. Also, if you don't specify the input page correctly, you can't return to that page if there are validation errors. I think this is the best solution by far. - Keith -----Original Message----- From: Rohit Aeron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 8:23 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Still struggeling: howto get ActionForward to calling page Hi Alex Please try following solution In multiple screen scenario having same display list .Have separate actions for each screen then you can have forwards in case of error in respective Action which will map to original action. Regards Rohit -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 5:12 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Still struggeling: howto get ActionForward to calling page yeap, that's something in a way i thought of as 'dirty fix' for a framework. As i am looking into struts for 2-3 days only i am surprised to find such an elementary functionallity not implemented? Should be interessting for plenty of people having more than 2-3 pages nested in not linear way? Alex Send reply to: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date sent: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 10:50:00 +0200 From: Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Still struggeling: howto get ActionForward to calling page The input attribute on the action mapping is what you specify for the return page when validation of the form bean fails, so that is not going to help you. The easiest solution I can think of is to put a hidden field in your selection screens with the screen's URL in it. Alternatively you could try using the HTTP header referer e.g.: Referer: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/Overview.html but this is an optional header so not all browsers have to send it. I've never used it so I don't know which browsers do send it. hth Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > i am still looking for a clean way to get an ActionForward to the page that called my > current Action. That means e.g. I am a displayListAction and have been called by a > selection screen. In case i don't find a result for the selection parameters I would like to > bring a specific error to the calling selection screen. That would give users a chance to > change their selection. > > Sounding easy, this gets complicate in case there are several selection screens > bringing up the same list. I don't like to create a specific forward for each selection page > and then somehow determine which one called me (can do that, but there should be a > nice way in such a famous framework?). > > The hint using > ActionMapping.getInputForward() > or new ActionForward(mapping.getInput()) > didn't help me to much, seems to me there is hardcoded value inside, specified in the > input attribute of the specific action. > > How would an expert solve that problem? > > :-) Alex > > > > >>Looking for a way to get an ActionForward to the page calling the >>current page. >> >>The example: >>Want to realize 5-XX pages where to enter values for a >>calculation. The calculation & result page would check if >>everything was fine (using db queries etc..) >>Now in case that one of the input values is incorrect / >>missmatching the context, I'd like to redisplay the calling page >>showing the values entered before + an error message. >> >>How can i realize that without having to define specific forwards >>to the 5 pages and then deciding which one was the calling one? >> >>Tried the ActionMapping.getInputForward(), but it brought back >>null values in the ActionForward only. >> >>Comments and keywords to look for welcome. -- COMPUTERBILD 15/03: Premium-e-mail-Dienste im Test -------------------------------------------------- 1. GMX TopMail - Platz 1 und Testsieger! 2. GMX ProMail - Platz 2 und Preis-Qualitätssieger! 3. Arcor - 4. web.de - 5. T-Online - 6. freenet.de - 7. daybyday - 8. e-Post --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
