Thanks, Don! Is this documented anywhere, because I couldn't find anything...
Back to work! EC On 1/24/07, Don Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The wildcard character will optionally swallow the previous character so login_* will be matched by login and login_app. This change from Struts 1 was done in order to better align with the "action!method" notation of WebWork 2/Struts 2. Don On 1/24/07, Elie Ciment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am following along the tutorials online getting started with Struts2. I am > loving it, but I noticed something bazaar and was wondering what anyone has > to say about it. > > When you have an action > > <action name="Login" ....> > > and you add an underscore or ! followed by an asterisk (*), to make it > > <action name="Login_*" ...> or <action name="Login!*" ...> > > then when you reference the url http://localhost:8080/myapp/Login.action- > why does the action Login_* get called? I would think that the underscore is > now needed in order to call this action! > > Basically, now LoginXyz.action does not work, yet Login.action does - as > does Login_xyz.action (which is the only one that makes sense to me). So, > does the special character have any special teatment? If so, which > characters are teated specially aside from the ! and _ characters, and is > this documented anywhere? > > Thanks for your help, > EC > > > -- The particular case was first brought to attention in the validation > section of the tutorial ( > http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/validating-input.html). It was suggested > that if you do not wish to validate before there was any user input, add a > wildcard (*) after a special character to the action ("_" in the article, > but in my downloaded source for the blank struts2 app it was the "!"). That > would make it Login_* (or Login!*). > > Whether I go to the Login.action or the Login_any- action-but-input.action it > works and validates, returning back to the page with the validation comment > (xyz is required etc). The question struck me: why does it work for > Login.action!!?? Thanks, again. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
