link request param to ActionMapping at high level

[Weston Kornfeld]

What I want to do is everytime a particular action mapping is called in my web application - I want pass a particular value in the request.

I.e. - if I have /listCustomers.do - I want a request param associated with that to be menuValue="menuListCustomers" - likewise if I have an /editCustomer.do I would like an associated request param menuValue="menuEditCustomers".

I want to do this at a high level - like in the struts.cofig file or the like - of course, I can find every occurence in my application of where these action mappings are referenced as manually tack on ?menuValue=whatever but I want to avoid scattering it all over the place in my app.

Many Thanks

[sreenath reddy]

struts provide an option of having some static parameter for every actionmapping ....ie through the parameter attriute for the action-mapping tag . This parameter u can get in execute method of ur action class saying mapping.getParmeter ()

is this what u wanted right ??

[Merrill Higginson]

You can also get the path of the current action with mapping.getPath(). So, for example, at the beginning of each action you could call a utility method with code similar to the following:

public String getMenuName(ActionMapping mapping) {
  String path = mapping.getPath();
  // eliminate initial "/"
  path = path.subString(1);
  // you may want code here to change the first character from lower to upper case
  String menu = "menu" + path;
  return menu;
}