Yes, something like that except that it returns a list or an object.
-----Original Message----- From: Ingo Villnow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 12:28 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: actions help Do you mean something like this? you can use actions to get data as a stream, for example to use it with the img-tag /****action****/ public class DiagramGanttAction extends DownloadAction { protected StreamInfo getStreamInfo(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception { String contentType = "image/png"; byte[] imagebytes = null; // Get the bytes from somewhere final GanttDiagram gantt = new GanttDiagram(project.getName(),project); imagebytes = gantt.getImagearray(); return new ByteArrayStreamInfo(contentType, imagebytes); } protected class ByteArrayStreamInfo implements StreamInfo { protected String contentType; protected byte[] bytes; public ByteArrayStreamInfo(String contentType, byte[] bytes) { this.contentType = contentType; this.bytes = bytes; } public String getContentType() { return contentType; } public InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException { return new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes); } } } now you can use it in your jsp: <%@ page language="java" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%> <%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean"%> <%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-html" prefix="html"%> <html:img action="/diagramGantt" alt="hier müßte das Bild kommen" /> struts-config: <action attribute="diagramGanttForm" input="gantt.jsp" name="diagramGanttForm" path="/diagramGantt" scope="request" type="kpm.presentation.actions.DiagramGanttAction" validate="false" /> </action-mappings> Lalchandra Rampersaud schrieb: > Hi > > Is it possible execute an action which just puts data into the request > object without returning an ActionFoward? > > I tried to return null but the page just becomes blank. > > > > Ravi > > > __________________________________________ > > Participe en Universidad 2008. > 11 al 15 de febrero del 2008. > Palacio de las Convenciones, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba > http://www.universidad2008.cu > __________________________________________ Participe en Universidad 2008. 11 al 15 de febrero del 2008. Palacio de las Convenciones, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba http://www.universidad2008.cu --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]