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Posted to user@struts.apache.org by "David C. Hicks" <dh...@i-hicks.org> on 2009/03/13 20:57:40 UTC
To .action or not to .action.
We recently discovered, quite by accident, that we can cause our app
built on struts2 to NOT display ".action" on any of the URL's. I'd
simply like to find out if this is an intended feature or a possible
defect? The difference is in how we start off our interaction in the
browser. If we use a URL like:
http://localhost:8080/mysite/login.action
then all of the URL's in the site appear to be suffixed with ".action".
If, on the other hand, we use:
http://localhost:8080/mysite/login
then none of the URL's are suffixed with ".action".
We're using Struts 2.1.6 with Tiles 2.0.4 - recently upgraded from some
prior versions. We noticed this because our QE department's automated
testing software freaked out when it couldn't match URL's as it expected.
Thanks,
Dave
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Re: To .action or not to .action.
Posted by "David C. Hicks" <dh...@i-hicks.org>.
I think Greg answered my question sufficiently - at least, enough for my
needs. If you're still interested, I'll try to find a JSP over the
weekend. We're not really doing anything strange, though. It's just
<s:url> tags, much like the one I posted earlier.
Martin Gainty wrote:
> so you're saying that once .action is appended onto a URL its always in the URL
> sounds like a caching problem
>
> can you include a small jsp with relevant tags so we can reproduce the error?
>
> thanks,
> Martin
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>> Subject: Re: To .action or not to .action.
>> From: DEck@holstein.com
>> To: user@struts.apache.org
>> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:24:35 -0400
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>>
>>
>> I believe it's now the default behavior of struts 2.1.
>>
>>
>>
>> We recently discovered, quite by accident, that we can cause our app
>> built on struts2 to NOT display ".action" on any of the URL's. I'd
>> simply like to find out if this is an intended feature or a possible
>> defect? The difference is in how we start off our interaction in the
>> browser. If we use a URL like:
>>
>> http://localhost:8080/mysite/login.action
>>
>> then all of the URL's in the site appear to be suffixed with ".action".
>> If, on the other hand, we use:
>>
>> http://localhost:8080/mysite/login
>>
>> then none of the URL's are suffixed with ".action".
>>
>> We're using Struts 2.1.6 with Tiles 2.0.4 - recently upgraded from some
>> prior versions. We noticed this because our QE department's automated
>> testing software freaked out when it couldn't match URL's as it expected.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dave
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RE: To .action or not to .action.
Posted by Martin Gainty <mg...@hotmail.com>.
so you're saying that once .action is appended onto a URL its always in the URL
sounds like a caching problem
can you include a small jsp with relevant tags so we can reproduce the error?
thanks,
Martin
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> Subject: Re: To .action or not to .action.
> From: DEck@holstein.com
> To: user@struts.apache.org
> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:24:35 -0400
>
>
>
> I believe it's now the default behavior of struts 2.1.
>
>
>
> We recently discovered, quite by accident, that we can cause our app
> built on struts2 to NOT display ".action" on any of the URL's. I'd
> simply like to find out if this is an intended feature or a possible
> defect? The difference is in how we start off our interaction in the
> browser. If we use a URL like:
>
> http://localhost:8080/mysite/login.action
>
> then all of the URL's in the site appear to be suffixed with ".action".
> If, on the other hand, we use:
>
> http://localhost:8080/mysite/login
>
> then none of the URL's are suffixed with ".action".
>
> We're using Struts 2.1.6 with Tiles 2.0.4 - recently upgraded from some
> prior versions. We noticed this because our QE department's automated
> testing software freaked out when it couldn't match URL's as it expected.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
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Re: To .action or not to .action.
Posted by "David C. Hicks" <dh...@i-hicks.org>.
We don't really care whether Struts wants a ".action", or not. However,
it's confusing when it seems to pick up the behavior based on the URL
you used to enter into the system in the first place. Both URL's that I
posted in the original note work, but the resulting behavior after the
fact is different. That's the part that I'm more concerned about.
Here's an example of one of the links created on a page:
<s:url id="deleteUrl" namespace="/customer" action="delete"
includeParams="none"/>
AFAIK, nothing in this implies that the URL should have an ".action"
suffix, but if I start my session by going to "login.action" this URL
will have that suffix. If I start without the .action, it won't. Is
there maybe some way to force Struts to do it one way or the other? I
would prefer that the URLs generated be determinant.
Musachy: No, as far as I can tell, we are not using the Convention plugin.
Musachy Barroso wrote:
> I missed that memo :)
>
> musachy
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:24 PM, <DE...@holstein.com> wrote:
>
>> I believe it's now the default behavior of struts 2.1.
>>
>>
>>
>> We recently discovered, quite by accident, that we can cause our app
>> built on struts2 to NOT display ".action" on any of the URL's. I'd
>> simply like to find out if this is an intended feature or a possible
>> defect? The difference is in how we start off our interaction in the
>> browser. If we use a URL like:
>>
>> http://localhost:8080/mysite/login.action
>>
>> then all of the URL's in the site appear to be suffixed with ".action".
>> If, on the other hand, we use:
>>
>> http://localhost:8080/mysite/login
>>
>> then none of the URL's are suffixed with ".action".
>>
>> We're using Struts 2.1.6 with Tiles 2.0.4 - recently upgraded from some
>> prior versions. We noticed this because our QE department's automated
>> testing software freaked out when it couldn't match URL's as it expected.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dave
>>
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Re: To .action or not to .action.
Posted by Musachy Barroso <mu...@gmail.com>.
I missed that memo :)
musachy
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:24 PM, <DE...@holstein.com> wrote:
>
>
> I believe it's now the default behavior of struts 2.1.
>
>
>
> We recently discovered, quite by accident, that we can cause our app
> built on struts2 to NOT display ".action" on any of the URL's. I'd
> simply like to find out if this is an intended feature or a possible
> defect? The difference is in how we start off our interaction in the
> browser. If we use a URL like:
>
> http://localhost:8080/mysite/login.action
>
> then all of the URL's in the site appear to be suffixed with ".action".
> If, on the other hand, we use:
>
> http://localhost:8080/mysite/login
>
> then none of the URL's are suffixed with ".action".
>
> We're using Struts 2.1.6 with Tiles 2.0.4 - recently upgraded from some
> prior versions. We noticed this because our QE department's automated
> testing software freaked out when it couldn't match URL's as it expected.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
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Re: To .action or not to .action.
Posted by Dave Newton <ne...@yahoo.com>.
Becky.L.O'Sullivan@healthnet.com wrote:
> We've been posting our URLs that way (sans .action)
I've been sans action for months now.
Oh, URL mapping; I knew that.
Dave
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Re: To .action or not to .action.
Posted by Be...@healthnet.com.
We've been posting our URLs that way (sans .action) for a while now and we
love it. Please don't make it go away. :)
-B
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I believe it's now the default behavior of struts 2.1.
We recently discovered, quite by accident, that we can cause our app
built on struts2 to NOT display ".action" on any of the URL's. I'd
simply like to find out if this is an intended feature or a possible
defect? The difference is in how we start off our interaction in the
browser. If we use a URL like:
http://localhost:8080/mysite/login.action
then all of the URL's in the site appear to be suffixed with ".action".
If, on the other hand, we use:
http://localhost:8080/mysite/login
then none of the URL's are suffixed with ".action".
We're using Struts 2.1.6 with Tiles 2.0.4 - recently upgraded from some
prior versions. We noticed this because our QE department's automated
testing software freaked out when it couldn't match URL's as it expected.
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Re: To .action or not to .action.
Posted by DE...@holstein.com.
I believe it's now the default behavior of struts 2.1.
We recently discovered, quite by accident, that we can cause our app
built on struts2 to NOT display ".action" on any of the URL's. I'd
simply like to find out if this is an intended feature or a possible
defect? The difference is in how we start off our interaction in the
browser. If we use a URL like:
http://localhost:8080/mysite/login.action
then all of the URL's in the site appear to be suffixed with ".action".
If, on the other hand, we use:
http://localhost:8080/mysite/login
then none of the URL's are suffixed with ".action".
We're using Struts 2.1.6 with Tiles 2.0.4 - recently upgraded from some
prior versions. We noticed this because our QE department's automated
testing software freaked out when it couldn't match URL's as it expected.
Thanks,
Dave
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Re: To .action or not to .action.
Posted by Musachy Barroso <mu...@gmail.com>.
Are you using the Convention plugin?
musachy
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:57 PM, David C. Hicks <dh...@i-hicks.org> wrote:
> We recently discovered, quite by accident, that we can cause our app built
> on struts2 to NOT display ".action" on any of the URL's. I'd simply like to
> find out if this is an intended feature or a possible defect? The
> difference is in how we start off our interaction in the browser. If we use
> a URL like:
>
> http://localhost:8080/mysite/login.action
>
> then all of the URL's in the site appear to be suffixed with ".action". If,
> on the other hand, we use:
>
> http://localhost:8080/mysite/login
>
> then none of the URL's are suffixed with ".action".
>
> We're using Struts 2.1.6 with Tiles 2.0.4 - recently upgraded from some
> prior versions. We noticed this because our QE department's automated
> testing software freaked out when it couldn't match URL's as it expected.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
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Re: To .action or not to .action.
Posted by dusty <du...@yahoo.com>.
This is a gift from Mr. Don Brown back when he was working on the REST
plugin. I remember people asking for it. Speaking of mrdon, where's he
been? Maybe Atlassian is working him hard these days. ;-p
Musachy Barroso wrote:
>
> It is not a bug, it is a feature! /friday
>
> musachy
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Greg Lindholm <gl...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> dchicks wrote:
>>>
>>> We recently discovered, quite by accident, that we can cause our app
>>> built on struts2 to NOT display ".action" on any of the URL's. I'd
>>> simply like to find out if this is an intended feature or a possible
>>> defect? The difference is in how we start off our interaction in the
>>> browser. If we use a URL like:
>>>
>>> http://localhost:8080/mysite/login.action
>>>
>>> then all of the URL's in the site appear to be suffixed with ".action".
>>> If, on the other hand, we use:
>>>
>>> http://localhost:8080/mysite/login
>>>
>>> then none of the URL's are suffixed with ".action".
>>>
>>> We're using Struts 2.1.6 with Tiles 2.0.4 - recently upgraded from some
>>> prior versions. We noticed this because our QE department's automated
>>> testing software freaked out when it couldn't match URL's as it
>>> expected.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> There was a change sometime between Struts 2.0.11 and Struts 2.1.6 where
>> the
>> default list of action extensions (struts.action.extension) changed from
>> just 'action' to 'action' plus "" (no extension). This will cause
>> requests
>> with no extension to be treated as an action.
>>
>> The old (2.0.11) struts default.properties had:
>> struts.action.extension=action
>>
>> The new (2.1.6) has:
>> struts.action.extension=action,,
>>
>> You can explicitly set the extension back to just 'action' then It works
>> like it used to.
>>
>> In struts.xml I added: <constant name="struts.action.extension"
>> value="action" />
>>
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Re: To .action or not to .action.
Posted by Musachy Barroso <mu...@gmail.com>.
It is not a bug, it is a feature! /friday
musachy
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Greg Lindholm <gl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> dchicks wrote:
>>
>> We recently discovered, quite by accident, that we can cause our app
>> built on struts2 to NOT display ".action" on any of the URL's. I'd
>> simply like to find out if this is an intended feature or a possible
>> defect? The difference is in how we start off our interaction in the
>> browser. If we use a URL like:
>>
>> http://localhost:8080/mysite/login.action
>>
>> then all of the URL's in the site appear to be suffixed with ".action".
>> If, on the other hand, we use:
>>
>> http://localhost:8080/mysite/login
>>
>> then none of the URL's are suffixed with ".action".
>>
>> We're using Struts 2.1.6 with Tiles 2.0.4 - recently upgraded from some
>> prior versions. We noticed this because our QE department's automated
>> testing software freaked out when it couldn't match URL's as it expected.
>>
>>
>
> There was a change sometime between Struts 2.0.11 and Struts 2.1.6 where the
> default list of action extensions (struts.action.extension) changed from
> just 'action' to 'action' plus "" (no extension). This will cause requests
> with no extension to be treated as an action.
>
> The old (2.0.11) struts default.properties had:
> struts.action.extension=action
>
> The new (2.1.6) has:
> struts.action.extension=action,,
>
> You can explicitly set the extension back to just 'action' then It works
> like it used to.
>
> In struts.xml I added: <constant name="struts.action.extension"
> value="action" />
>
>
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Re: To .action or not to .action.
Posted by "David C. Hicks" <dh...@i-hicks.org>.
Greg Lindholm wrote:
> There was a change sometime between Struts 2.0.11 and Struts 2.1.6 where the
> default list of action extensions (struts.action.extension) changed from
> just 'action' to 'action' plus "" (no extension). This will cause requests
> with no extension to be treated as an action.
>
Ah! So, once you send the request with no extension, the URLs generated
in the jsp's will also have no extension? I can accept that. It was jut
confusing when I first encountered it. Thanks for the tip on how to set
it explicitly!
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Re: To .action or not to .action.
Posted by Greg Lindholm <gl...@yahoo.com>.
dchicks wrote:
>
> We recently discovered, quite by accident, that we can cause our app
> built on struts2 to NOT display ".action" on any of the URL's. I'd
> simply like to find out if this is an intended feature or a possible
> defect? The difference is in how we start off our interaction in the
> browser. If we use a URL like:
>
> http://localhost:8080/mysite/login.action
>
> then all of the URL's in the site appear to be suffixed with ".action".
> If, on the other hand, we use:
>
> http://localhost:8080/mysite/login
>
> then none of the URL's are suffixed with ".action".
>
> We're using Struts 2.1.6 with Tiles 2.0.4 - recently upgraded from some
> prior versions. We noticed this because our QE department's automated
> testing software freaked out when it couldn't match URL's as it expected.
>
>
There was a change sometime between Struts 2.0.11 and Struts 2.1.6 where the
default list of action extensions (struts.action.extension) changed from
just 'action' to 'action' plus "" (no extension). This will cause requests
with no extension to be treated as an action.
The old (2.0.11) struts default.properties had:
struts.action.extension=action
The new (2.1.6) has:
struts.action.extension=action,,
You can explicitly set the extension back to just 'action' then It works
like it used to.
In struts.xml I added: <constant name="struts.action.extension"
value="action" />
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