Again, thank you very much Laurie. I couldn't understand how ** wildcard mapping could work with suffix mapping (*.do). I have tried, in web.xml, *.do/** but tomcat said "invalid url-pattern". If I manage to get ** wilcard mapping work with *.do, I will be able to correctly process a request like http://localhost:8080/myapp/server.do/chapter1/1.html
Also, I've tried *.do** , tomcat did accept this but this time, it expected me to write ** at the end of all URL's. That is, it didn't work as a wildcard mapping. And in struts-config.xml, I modified my action as " <action path=/server** ... " but this didn't work either. It seems that ** wildcard mapping is not possible with *.do suffix mapping. What do you think Laurie? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: user@struts.apache.org Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:31:10 -0400 Subject: Re: user Digest 25 Sep 2005 21:39:29 -0000 Issue 6130 emre akbas wrote: > Now, I have another problem. We have written our Struts application using > prefix mappings, i.e "*.do". In order to use DownloadAction with ** mapping, > we should migrate to suffix mapping, i.e. "/do/*" . Is there an easy way of > migrating a whole Struts application from prefix mapping to suffix mapping? > Or, is it possible that both mappings exists in web.xml ? (Sorry, if these > are weird questions.) [Note: '*.do' is a suffix, /do/* is a prefix (pre- -> previous); just to reduce any confusion for people following along ;-)] Actually, I think wildcard mappings *should* work with suffix mapping too, though I've never tried it. But you can define both types of mapping in web.xml, so long as you pick a prefix your application doesn't already use. In other words, as long as you don't already have linkes that start /do/... then adding a /do/* mapping is fine. Migrating your whole app from one mapping style to the other wouldn't be super hard -- just find anywhere you have an explicit .do and update appropriately. However, I wouldn't recommend trying that if this is the only driver. If what you have works, keep it ;-) L.
