Struts 1.3.10 DispatchAction issue

[Joe Harry]

Guys,

I have a DispatchAction class defined as below:

public class SearchFormAction extends DispatchAction {

    public ActionForward populate(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm actionForm, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
        //call to the service and populate the form bean
        return mapping.findForward("success");
    }
}

My struts-config.xml entry looks like this:

        <action path="/searchForm" type="com.myapp.web.content.action.SearchFCAPFormAction"
                name="searchExistingForm" scope="request" validate="true"
                input="/pages/content/searchForms.jsp" parameter="method">
            <forward name="success" path="/pages/content/searchResults.jsp" />
            <forward name="error" path="/pages/common/error.jsp" />
            <forward name="noResult" path="/pages/content/noResults.jsp" />
        </action>

I call this by clicking a hyperlink which calls an action when clicked:

<form action="searchForm.do?method=populate">

When I click the hyperlink to call my searchForms.jsp, I get the following error:

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: Request[/searchForm] does not contain handler parameter named 'method'.  
This may be caused by whitespace in the label text.
	org.apache.struts.chain.ComposableRequestProcessor.process(ComposableRequestProcessor.java:286)
	org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1913)
	org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:449)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:627)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)

root cause

javax.servlet.ServletException: Request[/searchForm] does not contain handler parameter named 'method'.  
This may be caused by whitespace in the label text.
	org.apache.struts.actions.DispatchAction.unspecified(DispatchAction.java:197)
	org.apache.struts.actions.DispatchAction.dispatchMethod(DispatchAction.java:245)
	org.apache.struts.actions.DispatchAction.execute(DispatchAction.java:170)
	org.apache.struts.chain.commands.servlet.ExecuteAction.execute(ExecuteAction.java:58)
	org.apache.struts.chain.commands.AbstractExecuteAction.execute(AbstractExecuteAction.java:67)
	org.apache.struts.chain.commands.ActionCommandBase.execute(ActionCommandBase.java:51)
	org.apache.commons.chain.impl.ChainBase.execute(ChainBase.java:191)
	org.apache.commons.chain.generic.LookupCommand.execute(LookupCommand.java:305)
	org.apache.commons.chain.impl.ChainBase.execute(ChainBase.java:191)
	org.apache.struts.chain.ComposableRequestProcessor.process(ComposableRequestProcessor.java:283)
	org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1913)
	org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:449)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:627)
	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)

Not able to figure out why this happens. Any suggestions?

[Sagar Rohankar]

Are you sure the the the class you mapped

<action path="/searchForm" type="com.myapp.web.content.action.SearchFCAPFormAction"

is same as the class you post.

public class SearchFormAction extends DispatchAction {

    public ActionForward populate(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm actionForm, 
HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
        //call to the service and populate the form bean
        return mapping.findForward("success");
    }
}

[Joe Harry]

That was a typo. It is the same by the way.

[Sagar Rohankar]

Code looks ok, some RnD
Use Struts tag:

<html:form action="..">

If that doesn't work, pass the hidden input param named "method" with value = "populate"