mapping.getInputForward()

[Saritha Penumudi]

Hi,

I have a menu from where I will click on a hyperlink which takes me to listing page. In my listing page I have checkbox before each record and delete button in the bottom of the listing.

Now, when user selects records from the listing and clicks delete button, I have to go and delete those records from the database.

on error, I have to show same listing with error message on top when I say return (mapping.getInputForward()); it is taking me to menu page. How can i get back to my listing page without getting whole data from the database again?

or it is compulsory to get whole records from database in both success and error conditions.

I am not sure why return (mapping.getInputForward()); is taking me to menu page. How can I get back to my listing page

Please help me out.
Thank you
Saritha

[Marc Peabody]

What does the ActionMapping look like?

[Saritha Penumudi]

I am sorry I did not understand your quetion.

I am using DispatchAction
This is the method signature

  
 public ActionForward delete(ActionMapping mapping,
  ActionForm form,
  HttpServletRequest request,
  HttpServletResponse response)

mapping is the method parameter of delete method.

This is the configuration in struts-config.xml file

  
   <action input="/index.jsp" path="/messages" scope="request"
       name="CreateErrorMessageActionForm"
      type="demo.struts.MessageDispatchAction" parameter="methodToCall">
      <forward name="continueList" path="/ListMessages.jsp" />
      <forward name="modifyMessage" path="/ModifyMessage.jsp" />
    </action>

I always thought that mapping.getInputForward() should hold page url from which I am making the request.

I would really appreciate if you could help me in solving my problem

Thank you
Saritha
[ September 22, 2004: Message edited by: Saritha ventrapragada ]

[Sheldon Fernandes]

getInputForward() returns an ActionForward that corresponds to the "input" property of the Action.

In your case this is 'index.jsp'
<action input="/index.jsp" path="/messages" scope="request" ...

If you want to forward to "ListMessages.jsp" use:
- mapping.findForward("continueList")
OR
- change your action mapping to
<action input="/ListMessages.jsp" path="/messages" scope="request" ...
and continue using getInputForward()

Sheldon Fernandes