Hi, Still learning but I am really going to like Struts 2. An area where I find it a bit lacking though (Compared to Struts 1) is the support for action messages to survive redirects.
I really like to follow the ‘Post/Redirect/Get pattern’ for most of my actions. (See also http://www.theserverside.com/patterns/thread.tss?thread_id=20936) Therefore in most of my actions I have the requirement that my success messages survive the next redirect. In Struts 1 I can do: messages.add(ActionMessages.GLOBAL_MESSAGE, new ActionMessage("user.added")); saveMessages(request.getSession(), messages); But there is nothing like this in Struts 2. I did not find too much information about this requirement in Struts 2. There are 2 open issues in Jira that touch the issue: https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-1623 https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-1572 On of the issues mentions the MessageStore interceptor but that looks a bit like overkill to me… (See also http://cwiki.apache.org/WW/message-store-interceptor.html) Thus, for right now I am using Appfuse’s solution of using a custom filter. (See https://appfuse-light.dev.java.net/source/browse/appfuse-light/trunk/src/main/java/org/appfuse/web/MessageFilter.java) This works great but somehow feels like a ‘hack’ (Had to do the same for my Spring MVC projects…) * * * In a perfect world I would like to see a feature similar to Ruby on Rails’ Flash which allows you to not only store messages but any object in a Flash, and hence those objects survive the next redirect. See also http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionController/Flash.html But for the time being I would be already quite happy if there was a simple and standardized way to have my actionMessages survive redirects. What is the status on that? Is this something that will be added to one of the next Struts 2 releases? Thanks a lot! Regards, Gunnar Hillert -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-S2--ActionMessages-and-redirects-tf3863054.html#a10943759 Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
