How about using an exception handler to catch both unspecified and invalid method names? I recently added "dispatch" flavour examples (primarily for testing) to the struts-examples webapp - you can take a look at them in the nightly build if thats of interest:
http://svn.apache.org/builds/struts/maven/STRUTS_1_2_BRANCH/nightly/binary/ Otherwise, you could override the dispatchMethod and catch the NoSuchMethodException, although IMO this is a bad idea, since it could hide bugs/attacks (depending on what you put in the unspecified method). protected ActionForward dispatchMethod(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, String name) throws Exception { try { return super.dispatchMethod(mapping, form, request. response); } catch(NoSuchMethodException ex) { return unspecified(mapping, form, request, response); } } Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Mun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 12:55 AM > The "unspecified()" method is only invoked if the > parameter wasn't passed in. However, when an invalid > method name is passed in, a > java.lang.NoSuchMethodException exception is thrown. > > If possible, I want "unspecified()" to be invoked for > invalid method names also... > > Example... parameter name: "param" > param=validMethod => DispatchAction.validMethod() > param=NULL => DispatchAction.unspecified() > param=invalidMethod => NoSuchMethodException is > THROWN!! > > thanks. > > --- Paul Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Joe, override the unspecified method. That method > > is invoked whenever the dispatch cannot be resolved. > > > > --- Joe Mun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Using DispatchAction, if a non-existent method > > name is > > > passed, a java.lang.NoSuchMethodException is > > thrown. > > > How (and where) can I catch (and ignore) this > > > exception, so that invalid methods default to > > > "unspecified(..)"??? > > > > > > Thanks! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]