Would making a Struts Action your "input" parameter solve this?
This is not a great solution, for all the reasons that action chaining is considered dangerous. After the validation fails, Struts would begin an entire re-execution of the RequestProcessor chain, and the archives have plenty of discussion on why that's unpredictable and worth avoiding.
One solution you could consider would be to set "validate='false'" in struts-config, and then execute logic in your action to test for staleness first, and, then, if necessary, reproducing the validation which happens in RequestProcessor.processValidate(...) It's basically this:
ActionErrors err = form.validate();
if (err.size() > 0)
{
saveErrors(...);
return mapping.getInputForward();
}It seems to me that you could probably also organize your mapping configurations differently, but it's hard for me to make a suggestion without a better handle on what's actually going on. Anyway, this is a pretty simple and straightforward solution.
Joe
This way you could do some checking before they made it all the way to the input page.
-----Original Message----- From: Mark R. Diggory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 7:33 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Pulling Punches
Here's an interesting one for ya.
I have a struts action in which I use the "input" parameter to forward back to the jsp when validation errors occur (pretty basic). There is an instance where an object could be stale once the browser gets into my Actions execute method, when this is encountered the action forwards to an error page that provides a message. This way if anyone bookmarks the action, I can show something better than a stack trace when they return to the page.
My problem is that I get forwarded back to the input form without execute occuring and teh stale object being encountered! When returning via a bookmark, I get dumped into the JSP designated in the input attribute. Is there any way I can execute some code to verify the object is not stale BEFORE validation occurs?
What it really boils down to is this. Is there a way I can cause an ActionForward before ActionForm.validate occurs?
-Mark
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