loosing fielderror when result to another action

[J Young]

Hi

I am unable to see a <s:fielderror/> on the view.jsp, even though I know the validator is populating it.

        <action name="ViewAction" class="....MyViewAction">
            <result name="success">/WEB-INF/jsp/view.jsp</result>
        </action>
        <action name="EditAction" class="...MyEditAction">
            <result name="input">ViewAction</result>
            <result name="success">ViewAction</result>
        </action>

If I do the following, it works, but this is not what I want. I want to perform the processing inside of ViewAction:

        <action name="ViewAction" class="....MyViewAction">
            <result name="success">/WEB-INF/jsp/view.jsp</result>
        </action>
        <action name="EditAction" class="...MyEditAction">
            <result name="input">/WEB-INF/jsp/view.jsp</result>
            <result name="success">ViewAction</result>
        </action>

Thanks,
James

[David Newton]

If you redirect to a new action, it's a new instance, and the original action's properties are lost. You could consider using the store interceptor.

[J Young]

Unfortunately I'm trying not to use type="redirect-action", rather I want an include. (This is because of problems we have with handling redirects. Firewalls, etc..)

So everything is happening in the same request. I tried your suggestion. When I debugged the MessageStoreInterceptor, it went something like this:

MessageStoreInterceptor.before for EditAction -> do nothing
MessageStoreInterceptor.before for ViewAction -> try to retrieve error messages from session (they're not there yet)
MessageStoreInterceptor.after for ViewAction -> do nothing
MessageStoreInterceptor.after for EditAction -> try to store error messages to session (to late)