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Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 10:37:56 +0800
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Subject: Re: chain or redirectAction ResultType
From: Steven Yang <kenshin520@gmail.com>
To: Struts Users Mailing List <user@struts.apache.org>
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chaining is not recommended.

basically as you have observed, chaining is a server-side redirect.
you go to another page without changing client's browser url.
i have not seen a formal argument of the bad of it (or i forgot)
but what i have observed is that the user may hit Reload on browser and get
unexpected behavior for both the user and developer

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Sachin Lale <lalesachin3@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am migrating an application from struts1.1 to struts 2.2.3.  I have two
> action
>
>  1. InstitutuionAction : The purpose is to prepare the data required
>     to display and then forward to a Institution.JSP (using tiles)
>  2. InstitutionAddEditAction: This action exposed two methods insert,
>     update and validate.
>
> The insert and validate method of InstitutionAddEditAction class looks like
> below
>
> public String insert() throws Exception
>    {
>        log.info("In
> InstitutionStrutsAddEditAction"+institution.getName());
>        return Action.SUCCESS;
>    }
>
> public void validate()
>    {
>        if(institution.getName().equals("abc"))
>            addActionError("<font color=\"red\"> Invalid Name .</font>");
>    }
>
> struts.xml
>
> <action name="Institution" method="execute"
> class="edu.wustl.clinportal.action.struts2.InstitutionStruts2Action">
> <result name="success" type="tiles">.clinportal.institutionDef</result>
> <result name="failure" type="tiles">.clinportal.institutionDef</result>
> <result name="access_denied" >/ManageAdministrativeData.do</result>
> </action>
> <action name="InstitutionAddEdit_*" method="{1}"
> class="edu.wustl.clinportal.action.struts2.InstitutionStrutsAddEditAction">
> <result name="input" type="redirectAction">
> <param name="actionName">Institution</param>
> <param name="operation">add</param>
> <param name="pageOf">pageOfInstitution</param>
> <param name="menuSelected">2</param>
> </result>
> <result name="success" type="redirectAction">
> <param name="actionName">Institution</param>
> </result>
> </action>
>
> After a validation error it is getting redirect to Institution.action but
> not re-populating the data entered by the users obvious reason as the
> request is redirected and not forward. Everything works fine if i replace
> the result type to chain and could populate the Institution name (this
> object is in InstitutionAddEditAction class).
>
> I added a Institution object in InstitutuionAction  class. I tried the same
> scenarion using chain this time. Its worked as well. Is ChainInterceptor
> populating this object?
>
> But is using chain a recommended approach. What is harm in using chain.?
>
> Best regards,
> Sachin
>
>

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