Re: Redirect from one path to another

[Irfandhy Franciscus <en...@yahoo.com.sg>]

Hi it seems that you can use the Struts DispatchAction to do this. 
Please refer this:
http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=995474

Paulo Murphy wrote:

> Hi again all,
> 
> I have a couple of actions with respective forwards that are all working
> fine.
> Now what I am trying to do is use a single url to redirect to whichever
> action, based on a url parameter.
> 
> So I added the following to my struts config :
> 
> <action path="/redirect" type="com.this.webapp.Redirect" />
> 
> Then I created the class Redirect  :
> 
> public class Redirect {
>     public Redirect() {
>     }
> 
>     public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
>             HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
>             throws java.io.IOException,   javax.servlet.ServletException {
> 
>         String path = "./" + (String)request.getParameter("path") + ".do";
>         if ((path != null) && (path != "")) {
>             if (path == "showthis") {
>                 path += "?parentid=" + (String)request.getParameter
> ("parentid");
>             }
>             else if (path == "showthat") {
>                 path += "?id=" + (String)request.getParameter("id");
>             }
>         }
>         return new ActionForward(path, true);
>     }
> }
> 
> So I would visit http://here.there.com:7874/redirect.do?id=3&path=showthat
> and it would be interpreted as :
> http://here.there.com:7874/showthat.do?id=3
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on the subject. Am I going about this the wrong
> way completely?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help
> 
> /Paulo Murphy de Freitas


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