I was doing this because I have a series of pages that work sort of like a
wizard. On the first page the user enters some initial values. Depending upon
the values entered warning messages may need to be displayed on later pages in
the flow.
I didn't think it was too non-standard a practice to store messages in the
session using something like:
request.getSession().setAttribute("streamedit-messages", messages);
since the html:messages tag allows for a name field and that's the session
attribute key for the messages.
<html:messages id="msg" name="streamedit-messages"
bundle="timetablingResources">
<li><bean:write name="msg"/></li>
</html:messages>
I was surprised to see that only the "standard" ActionMessages get cleared out
after they have been displayed. Since the name="something" facility was there, I
thought somebody might be using it and I wondered how they were clearing up
after themselves.
I've had a bit of a think over the weekend and reworked it so that now the Java
uses:
messages.add("streamedit", message);
this.saveMessages(request.getSession(), messages);
and the JSP uses:
<html:messages id="msg" message="true" property="streamedit"
bundle="timetablingResources">
<li><bean:write name="msg"/></li>
</html:messages>
and it all works as I would like it with the messages being cleared after being
displayed once. I just have to be careful that none of the intermediary pages
between where the message was added and where it is to be displayed just does a
generic display of every message (which is no great hardship).
Cheers,
Kevin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurie Harper
> Sent: Saturday, 9 September 2006 6:52 a.m.
> To: user@struts.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Session scope ActionMessages
>
> Kevin Maeer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using ActionMessages stored in the session to display
> messages on a page and
> > everything works splendidly except that the messages never
> get removed from the
> > session so every time the user re-enters the page old
> messages get redisplayed.
> > After a bit of digging around, this appears to be because I
> am using my own keys
> > (instead of Globals.MESSAGE_KEY and Globals.ERROR_KEY) so
> the RequestProcessor's
> > processCachedMessages method doesn't clear out the messages.
> >
> > How have other people got around this? Is the
> simplest/cleanest option to
> > subclass RequestProcessor and override the
> processCachedMessages method to
> > remove any attribute that is an instance of ActionMessages
> and that has
> > isAccessed() = true?
> >
> > We're using Struts 1.2.7.
>
> The simplest options would seem to be not to store messages in a
> non-standard place, so the standard clean-up will work... If you can
> explain why you're doing that, maybe we can suggest an
> alternative approach.
>
> Failing that, your solution sounds like it should be workable --
> provided you have a fixed / constrained set of session scope keys to
> clean up.
>
> L.
>
>
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