Exactly what I was looking for... returning null was a good practice in Struts 1 when there were no resulttypes, dunno if there's not a better way to do it in S2... One thing one could do is write a null-return method for each kind of byte-result which can be placed in the ActionSupport class so that all the actions can pass a byte-array and/or resulttype to this supporter-method. On the other hand, this is pretty much what the struts 2 reults do... but the trouble here is passing parameters. Theoretically speaking(havent tried it yet) I would think that a <Striing, byte[]>-Map in the actionsupport class could be very handy. This way you'd just have to pass a String-key to the result(hardcoded <param> in the struts.xml), the result gets the actioncontext, gets the Map and eventually the byte[].
Sarr, Nathan wrote: > > Excellent, > > Thanks for the help musachy - much appreciated. > > -Nate > > -----Original Message----- > From: Musachy Barroso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 10:27 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Struts 2 - Action writing to response output stream > > You can just write to the outputstream, and return null from execute, > and > you won't need a NoOp result. I also wrote my own NoOp result when i > started > using S2 ;). Maybe this should be on the FAQs. > > musachy > > On 3/30/07, Sarr, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> We are using some actions to write directly to the stream for some >> ajax based functionality. To do this I wrote a >> >> NoOp result type that does nothing. >> >> >> >> [code] >> >> public class NoOp extends StrutsResultSupport { >> >> >> >> >> >> public NoOp() { >> >> super(); >> >> } >> >> >> >> protected void doExecute(String finalLocation, ActionInvocation >> invocation) throws Exception { >> >> //no op >> >> } >> >> } >> >> >> >> [/code] >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> This allows the action to write the content using: >> >> >> >> response.getOutputStream().write(contents) >> >> >> >> >> >> I am looking for best practices. Is this an acceptable way to do this >> or is there a better way to allow an action to return content that I >> would like placed as only part of the page? >> >> >> >> Thanks for the help, >> >> Nathan Sarr >> >> >> >> > > > -- > "Hey you! Would you help me to carry the stone?" Pink Floyd > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Struts-2---Action-writing-to-response-output-stream-tf3492429.html#a9766683 Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
