Niall, Let me restate: I don't want or need to use it, I simply found this seemingly obsolete comment in the 1.2.4 release candidate's tld while trying to help someone else.
Technically, I was trying to find all of the way that John Crossman, post named "Custom ActionForward - How do I pick it up in the Action?", globally set the ActionForward type. I gave him working examples on how to use them in a forward under the Action, in a forward under the global-forwards, and as the type="..." attribute of the global-forwards declaration. While researching and testing this for him, I actually read the 1.2 tld and found those odd notes claiming you could override "forward", "mapping", and "formBean" if you made them init-params to the ActionServlet. When I tried it and it didn't work, I thought I'd let you know. After all, you did ask for feedback on 1.2.4, right? So, maybe I found a bad comment in the code somewhere, like, say, the tld. (impish grin). I used to honestly wonder "who the HELL reads the TLD anyway?". Now I know: me! Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: Niall Pemberton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 12:28 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: ??? STRUTS 1.2.4 FEEDBACK ??? Yes you're right - the warning comment implies you can configure it for the controller - this comment should have been removed. You could do this in Struts 1.0 - i.e. set a "forward" parameter in the web.xml to configure the Forward implementation to use - but this behaviour was removed in Struts 1.1 (see revision 1.83 of ActionServlet) although comments at the start of ActionServlet indicate that they are just deprecated. Sorry when I read your original message I didn't realize theat using the global-forwards type="..." mechanism in the struts-config didn't suit your needs and you wanted to do it for the whole Struts app. There is still a way to do it, but its not quite as straight forward as it was. Haven't actually done this myself but I believe if you create your own custom ModuleConfigFactory you can then set the default ForwardConfig class for every ModuleConfig when they are created. public class MyModuleConfigFactory extends DefaultModuleConfigFactory { public ModuleConfig createModuleConfig(String prefix) { ModuleConfig config = super.createModuleConfig(prefix); config.setActionForwardClass("myPackage.MyForwardConfig"); return config; } } Then in the web.xml you can configure struts to use your custom factory <servlet> <init-param><param-name>configFactory</param-name> <param-value>myPackage.MyModuleConfigFactory</param-value> </init-param> If you try this can you post back whether it worked or not. Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "David G. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 2:47 PM Subject: RE: ??? STRUTS 1.2.4 FEEDBACK ??? > I thought it meant ActionServlet and therefore web.xml init-param settings > like "config" and a few other parameters: > > > "forward" initialization parameter to the Struts > > controller servlet. > > I tried it in the stuts-config.xml as an attribute in the "controller" but > received this error on 1.2.4: > > [ERROR] Digester - Parse Error at line 71 column 4: Attribute "forward" must > be declared for element type "controller". <org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: > Attribute "forward" must be declared for element type > "controller".>org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Attribute "forward" must be > declared for element type "controller". > > My line 74 is: > <controller processor="org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor" > contentType="text/html" > forward="com.friedsoftware.struts.ActionForwardExample" > /> > > I tried a set-property and that also failed: > > <controller processorClass="org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor" > contentType="text/html"> > <set-property property="forward" > value="com.friedsoftware.struts.ActionForwardExample" /> > </controller> > > With the error: > > [ERROR] ActionServlet - Parsing error processing resource path > /WEB-INF/struts-config.xml <java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: Bean has no > property named forward>java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: Bean has no property > named forward > > So where do I put it to configure it for the "Struts controller servlet" per > the quote from the tld? I also don't see any notes about those 3 in the > docs for userGuide/configuration.html or userGuide/building_controller.html. > Nor did I notice what I was looking for when I was doing a quick find/grep > on the source code for 1.2.4 (nothing jumped out at me). This is the same > class I can use successfully with a global-forwards type="..." attribute. > > Regards, > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Niall Pemberton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 3:09 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: ??? STRUTS 1.2.4 FEEDBACK ??? > > > David, > > I believe you're mistaken, these comments relate to the struts-config.xml > and not the web.xml and they work for me as described in Struts 1.2.4 > > <global-forwards type="com.friedsoftware.struts.ActionForwardExample"> > <forward name="success" path="/index2.jsp"> > <set-property property="property" value="welcome"/> > </forward> > </global-forwards> > > Niall > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David G. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 6:56 AM > Subject: RE: ??? STRUTS 1.2.4 FEEDBACK ??? > > > > Niall, > > > > While researching (out of curiosity) a recent help request on how to use > > custom ActionForwards with set-property, I actually read the > > struts_config_1_2.tld and the ActionServlet class (from CVS). I found that > > the tld describes how to set various init-params in web.xml for > > ActionServlet which don't seem to exist anymore. There are no references > as > > the tld comments describe in the 1.2.4 userGuide\configuration.xml or the > > latest ActionServlet.java code. Maybe no one remembered it was an odd > > comment in the 1.2 (v 1.8) tld? Below are the 3 comment sections > including > > their seemingly obsolete notes on init params: > > > > <!-- The "global-forwards" element describes a set of ActionForward > objects > > [org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward] that are available to all > > Action > > objects as a return value. The individual ActionForwards are > configured > > through nested <forward> elements. An <action> element may override a > > global > > forward by defining a local <forward> of the same name. > > > > type Fully qualified Java class to use when instantiating > > ActionForward objects. If specified, the object must > > be a > > subclass of the default class type. > > > > WARNING: For Struts 1.0, this value is ignored. You > > can set the default implementation class name with > the > > "forward" initialization parameter to the Struts > > controller servlet. > > --> > > > > <!-- The "action-mappings" element describes a set of ActionMapping > objects > > [org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping] that are available to > process > > requests matching the url-pattern our ActionServlet registered with > the > > container. The individual ActionMappings are configured through > nested > > <action> elements. The following attributes are defined: > > > > type Fully qualified Java class to use when instantiating > > ActionMapping objects. If specified, the object must > be > > a > > subclass of the default class type. > > > > WARNING: For Struts 1.0, this value is ignored. You > > can set the default implementation class name with the > > "mapping" initialization parameter to the Struts > > controller servlet. > > --> > > > > <!-- The "form-beans" element describes the set of form bean descriptors > for > > this > > module. The following attributes are defined: > > > > type Fully qualified Java class to use when instantiating > > ActionFormBean objects. If specified, the object must > > be a > > subclass of the default class type. > > > > WARNING: For Struts 1.0, this value is ignored. You > > can set the default implementation class name with > the > > "formBean" initialization parameter to the Struts > > controller servlet. > > --> > > > > Regards, > > David > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Niall Pemberton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 12:16 AM > > To: Struts Users Mailing List > > Subject: ??? 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