Joe, You be da man! Thanks. Frank ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Germuska" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 1:56 PM Subject: Re: Help with using declarative error handling
> At 1:58 AM +0100 5/18/04, Frank Burns wrote: > > > >This seems simple enough. So why doesn't it work? > > Because the default ExceptionHandler class saves its own error > messages into the request under the same key that Action.saveErrors() > uses, overwriting the reference to the errors that you saved. > > http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/api/org/apache/struts/action/ExceptionHandler.html#storeException(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest,%20java.lang.String,%20org.apache.struts.action.ActionError,%20org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward,%20java.lang.String) > > > > > >Hi Wendy, > > > >Thanks for your reply. I know that what you suggest is a solution. > > > >But I don't understand why what I originally tried doesn't work, which is to > >add some code in the catch block, before rethrowing it, for example like > >this: > > > > } catch(TrcDatabaseException ex){ > > /* add relevant action errors */ > > ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors(); > > errors.add(ActionErors.GLOBAL_ERROR, new > >ActionError("errors.database.noconnection")); > > saveErrors(request, errors); > > /* rethrow the exception to be caught by Struts declarative exception > >handling mechanism */ > > throw ex; > > } > > > >and have <html:errors/> display it in the JSP that is forwarded to. > > -- > Joe Germuska > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://blog.germuska.com > "Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them > the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and > nobody thinks of complaining." > -- Jef Raskin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
