Hello there! Recently I've upgraded our struts2 framework and its related plugins (eg: json plugin) from version 2.1.8 to version 2.3.16.3.
Now I'm having problems in using the json plugin while making json requests and returning the json responses. The problem is that the parameter values passed in the json request are not set on my struts 2 action any more (likewise, the return fields set in my action are not returned as a json string). Why does this happen? The problem is that a change has been made in the newer version of json plugin regarding to how the target action is found. 1. Consider this method: public String intercept(ActionInvocation invocation) throws Exception from the older version of the json plugin: http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/org.apache.struts/struts2-json-plugin/2.1.8/org/apache/struts2/json/JSONInterceptor.java?av=f line 100: rootObject = invocation.getAction(); // that's why the action class instance is found ok in struts 2.1.8 now from the newer plugin: http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/org.apache.struts/struts2-json-plugin/2.3.16.3/org/apache/struts2/json/JSONInterceptor.java?av=f line 91: ValueStack stack = invocation.getStack(); rootObject = stack.findValue(this.root); // the value on the top of the value stack is used! and this is not an action in our case (we push an interceptor on the top of the stack!). 2. Returning the target action's fields as the json return result: consider this method: public void execute(ActionInvocation invocation) throws Exception from the older plugin: http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/org.apache.struts/struts2-json-plugin/2.1.8/org/apache/struts2/json/JSONResult.java?av=f line 195: rootObject = invocation.getAction(); // that's why the action class instance is found in struts 2.1.8 from the newer plugin: http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/org.apache.struts/struts2-json-plugin/2.3.16.3/org/apache/struts2/json/JSONResult.java?av=f line 175: rootObject = readRootObject(invocation); line 187: return findRootObject(invocation); line 193: ValueStack stack = invocation.getStack(); rootObject = stack.findValue(root); // the value on the top of the value stack is an instance of our custom interceptor, not the target action! It is not clear to me why the logic of finding the target action has changed to popping up the value from the top of the stack. In our case this approach does not work anymore, since we have a custom interceptor pushed onto the top of the stack. Is there any workaround? Thanks -- Pavel Ilyushko
