Thank u for the reply. I followed the same pattern in another non struts based application. But on reading the struts users guide and articles and going through the sample sapplication, I found that nobody is mentioning about redirect and the problem with refresh. So I gott confused whether there are other ways available. The sample application is throwing an exception, when the page displayed adding new subscriptions is refreshed.
Antony Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claire Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 7:29 PM Subject: Re: forward vs redirect ? > Hi Antony, > > As a rule i always use just forward unless there is a specific need to > redirect to the page you're forwarding to. > > For example, say i had an action which saved some details from a form to a > database. if the page is not redirected then if the user were to refresh the > page, the action would be called again and the data saved again. This > obviously i would not want the user to do so in this case i redirect the > page, so that if the user were to refresh the page, the save action would > not be called again. > > The times when I would advise against using redirecting is when you're > storing objects on the request object in your action. If you redirect then > this information is lost. There are ways around this (like putting the > objects on the session rather than on the request object) but i try to cut > down on the amount of information being stored in the session. > > There are probably some better defined uses of the redirect attribute and > when/where to use it, but the above is the general rules i go by, having run > into problems with both redirecting and not redirecting in the past. > > hope this helps > > Claire > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Antony Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "struts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:28 PM > Subject: forward vs redirect ? > > > > Hi, > > I would like to receive comments on when to use forward and redirect > in > > action mapping. Do people use forward only. All the articles and examples > I > > saw uses forward. > > > > Antony Paul. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
