Ted, et. al., I am also interested in accessing the previous action from the target action of a "chain" result. But, the reason I want to get to that action is not because of any bean properties, but because I need the action errors, action messages, and field errors that may have been placed there by my validation.
In my case, action "one" is used to view an object that is an aggregate of a lot of smaller objects. Action "two" is used to add a new component object to the collection. However, when there is a validation error on the new object, the application needs to forward back to action "one" to redisplay the object and it needs to have the field error messages. The struts.xml looks like this: <action name="*/view" class="com.sherwin.sd.eris.web.action.CaseAction" method="execute"> {1} <result name="success">/WEB-INF/jsp/case/viewCase.jsp</result> </action> <action name="*/issue/add" class="com.sherwin.sd.eris.web.action.IssueAction" method="addIssue"> {1} <result name="input" type="chain"> {1}/view </result> <result name="success" type="redirect-action"> {1}/view </result> </action> Any tips you can offer are greatly appreciated. - Jack Gould Sherwin-Williams Cleveland, Ohio, USA Ted Husted wrote: > > Binding two Action classes together that way sounds like a "slippery > slope" to me. It seems like a better practice to rely on standard > JavaBean semantics, and access the values that need to be brought > forward through the usual get and set methods. > > One other thing to try, which you may have started to do, would be to > save the object as a request attribute, as an alternative to the chain > result. In this case, both Actions would have setRequest and > getRequest methods. > > ActionOne > getRequest().put("searchParameter",getSearchParameter()); > > ActionTwo > setSearchParameter( (SearchParameter) getRequest().get("searchParameter") > ); > > The JVM is optimized for property methods, and overall it's a better > practice to go through the getters and setters than access fields > directly. > > -- HTH, Ted > <http://www.husted.com/ted/blog/> > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-S2--Manually-obtain-previous-action-parameters-after-action-%22chaining%22--tf4601173.html#a13640692 Sent from the Struts - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]