-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ney,
Ney André de Mello Zunino wrote: > What I had to do was create a new ActionForward and set its attributes: > > ActionForward newAction = new ActionForward(); > newAction.setPath(fwdAction.getPath() + ...); > newAction.setRedirect(true); > return newAction; I do the same thing, but I've written a class to help wrap all that logic so it's easier to do so. The class even wraps an existing ActionForward and extends it, so it acts just like a regular ActionForward except that you can add parameters and even an anchor to it. You can find the code for it as an attachment to this Struts enhancement request: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36037 Struts comes with something like this already (org.apache.struts.action.ActionRedirect). > Now what I am trying to understand is why this is the case. Is is > because ActionForwards defined in the config file are not supposed to be > modified? I am just beginning with Struts, so please bear with me. The reason that you shouldn't be modifying these objects is that they are intended to be created once and used many times. Struts loads its configuration into a series of objects in memory and doesn't want you to modify that configuration during runtime. If you were to change the parameters for a particular ActionForward, then they would be changed for every use of that ActionForward thereafter. It would be a mess. So, the developers chose a solution that would be conservative on memory (only one object ever created for an ActionForward in the config file) and processor time (don't have to waste time creating and initializing those objects). In order to protect from accidental changes, these objects are "locked" after they are configured to make sure that folks like you don't stumble into a situation where your Struts app starts doing seriously unexpected things. Look into using ActionRedirect. Or, if you want a touch more flexibility, use my class found in the bug mentioned above. Hope that helps, - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFo8Up9CaO5/Lv0PARAnM0AJwNogfxrU2Ly/M5zu3DZwe5q2fD0ACffy4N SQryCdnDNf+bBBf2CY3IjeQ= =b7NR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
