Re: Struts 2 getRequestDispatcher forward to *.action

From:
 Q1tum <kuukelekuu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:36:56 -0000
Message-ID:
<1182436616.372941.7870@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
On Jun 19, 2:32 pm, Q1tum <kuukele...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I hope this is the right place to ask this question.

I'm started learning JSP / Java and need some advice regarding an
issue.

I created a tutorial project which makes use of the following:

- Maven (as local server)
- Struts 2
- Freemarker (template engine)
This is (a part) of my web.xml:

<web-app>

    ................
    ................

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>LoginService</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>tutorial.services.LoginService</servlet-class>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
     <servlet-name>LoginService</servlet-name>
     <url-pattern>/LoginService.do</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

-------------------------------

This is my struts.xml:

<struts>
        <package name="tutorial" extends="struts-default">
                <action name="index" class="indexAction">
                        <result type="freemarker">/ftl/index.ftl</result>
                </action>

                <action name="login*" method="{1}" class="loginAction">
                        <result name="input" type="redirect-action">index</result>
                        <result name="success" type="redirect-action">home</result>
                </action>

                <action name="home">
                        <result type="freemarker">/ftl/home.ftl</result>
                </action>
        </package>
</struts>

-------------------------------

Login Action (tutorialSupport extends ActionSupport):

package tutorial.actions;

import tutorial.comon.tutorialSupport;
import tutorial.dao.UserDAO;
import tutorial.vo.UserVO;

import com.opensymphony.xwork2.conversion.annotations.Conversion;

public class loginAction extends tutorialSupport {

        private String login = null;
        private String password = null;

    public String execute() throws Exception {
        String result = INPUT;

        UserDAO userDAO = new UserDAO();

        UserVO userVO = userDAO.getUserByLogin(login, password);

        if( userVO != null) {
                result = SUCCESS;
        }

        return result;
    }

        public String getLogin() {
                return login;
        }

        public void setLogin(String login) {
                this.login = login;
        }

        public String getPassword() {
                return password;
        }

        public void setPassword(String password) {
                this.password = password;
        }

}

-------------------------------

index.ftl (FreeMarker template file):

<html>
..........
..........

<@s.form action="LoginService.do" method="post">
        <@s.textfield label="Login" name="login" />
        <@s.password label="Password" name="password" />
        <@s.submit />
</...@s.form>

..........
..........
</htm>

-------------------------------

LoginService.java:

package tutorial.services;

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;

import tutorial.dao.UserDAO;
import tutorial.vo.UserVO;

public class LoginService extends HttpServlet {

        protected void doPost( HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
                throws ServletException, IOException {

                UserDAO userDAO = new UserDAO();

                UserVO userVO =
userDAO.getUserByLogin( request.getParameter("login") ,
                                                request.getParameter("password") );
                if( userVO == null ) {
                        request.setAttribute("error", "login");
                        request.getRequestDispatcher("/login.action").forward(request,
response);
                }

                else {
                        HttpSession httpSession = request.getSession(true);
                        httpSession.setAttribute("userVO", userVO);

                        request.getRequestDispatcher("/home.action").forward(request,
response);
                }
        }

}

--------------------

Problem:

When I submit the form, LoginService is called, lets assume my login
was incorrect, as soon as it gets to this line:

request.getRequestDispatcher("/login.action").forward(request,
response);

I get the following error:

#Start of the Error:

HTTP ERROR: 404

NOT_FOUND

RequestURI=/tutorial/login.action

#End of the Error

If I would replace request.getRequestDispatcher("/
login.action").forward(request, response); with
request.getRequestDispatcher("/login.jsp").forward(request, response);
or something, then it will find the page but I'm not using the Action
class anymore then.

I hope I made my problem clear, my questions are:

1. Why can't I forward to any action?
2. Is this the logical way of handling forms, actions etc.
3. Any other suggestions or remarks?

Thanks and regards,

Arno


request.getRequestDispatcher("/home.action").forward(request,
response); can only forward to .jsp files.

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