How does Struts resolve wildcard mappings?

[Tim Adler <me...@s-h-i-n-y.com>]

Hey everybody!

I'm currently working on a Web-application in which I have to do a 
custom handler-mapping resolvement. I have my Servlet mapped to a 
*.extension wildcard. The mappings that I would like to resolve to 
handlers, should look like "/page", which themselves are executed on 
"/page.extension"-requests.

I cannot seem to manage to get that path within the serlvet-mapping, 
with the extenstion stripped of. So basically the path within the 
servlet-mapping. I know that Struts does this with the *.do mappings. 
Like in the struts-config there is a "/Welcome", which I executed on a 
"/Welcome.do"-request. This is what I would like to achieve on my custom 
handler resolvement too. Can somebody point me directions, how this is 
achieved?

Thank you, Tim

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Re: How does Struts resolve wildcard mappings?

[Joe Germuska <Jo...@Germuska.com>]

Tim:

If I read you correctly, you're asking "how does Struts recognize 
action paths independent of their servlet mappings?"  and not asking 
anything about Struts' support for wildcards in the path mappings 
themselves (see 
http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/building_controller.html#action_mapping_wildcards)

Quite simply, Struts parses the web.xml file as part of the 
ActionServlet's initialization.   (See initServlet in 
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/struts/core/trunk/src/share/org/apache/struts/action/ActionServlet.java?root=Apache-SVN&view=markup)

Hope that helps.

Joe


At 12:54 AM +0200 5/15/05, Tim Adler wrote:
>Hey everybody!
>
>I'm currently working on a Web-application in which I have to do a 
>custom handler-mapping resolvement. I have my Servlet mapped to a 
>*.extension wildcard. The mappings that I would like to resolve to 
>handlers, should look like "/page", which themselves are executed on 
>"/page.extension"-requests.
>
>I cannot seem to manage to get that path within the serlvet-mapping, 
>with the extenstion stripped of. So basically the path within the 
>servlet-mapping. I know that Struts does this with the *.do 
>mappings. Like in the struts-config there is a "/Welcome", which I 
>executed on a "/Welcome.do"-request. This is what I would like to 
>achieve on my custom handler resolvement too. Can somebody point me 
>directions, how this is achieved?
>
>Thank you, Tim
>
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