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]
