Request Object Lost During ActionForward to JSP

[Elle Atechsy]

Hi,

Would anyone happen to know why I am losing my request object value between forwarding from the ActionClass to my JSP?

1st step:
Call jsppage.do

2nd step: In action...
go to DB
request.setAttribute("myObjName", obj);
forward.findForward("success");

3rd step:
request.getAttribute("myObjName");

but it is null.

I have tested even with only a string value, and still it does the same. Could this be a config problem?

If so, my action mapping looks like this:

<action name="siteMgmtFormBean" path="/cma/siteManagement/oosCMAoverviewEntry" scope="request" type="classPackageName" validate="false">

<forward name="success" redirect="true" path="/cma/siteManagement/oosCMAoverviewEntry.jsp"/>

<forward name="failure" path="/cma/siteManagement/oosCMAoverviewEntry.jsp"/>

</action>


Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Lulu

[Vicky Pandya]

Lulu,

You need to write request.getSession().setAttribute("myObjName", obj);

and while retrieving request.getSession().getAttribute("myObjName"); Make a not of getSession(). I am sure this will work and you find out why

[Elle Atechsy]

Thank you very much, Vicky!! It works.

However, I'm a newbie at Struts and Java/JSP as well, so I don't quite understand what you mean by "Make a not of getSession()". I did read in the JavaDocs that the getSession() method of the HttpSession class gets a session that is associated with a request or creates one. But I still don't understand why i had to get my value that way. Because I had also tried a session.setAttribute("myobjname", obj) & it still did not work.

Would you mind explaining why what I had did not work, and the one you gave did?

Much appreciation.

Lulu

[Thomas Mcfarrow]

Hello,

request.getSession().setAttribute(....) saves the values in session scope (HttpSession) which means the values will persist for the life of the user's session.

You are using the correct calls to set a value in the request scope. If that wasn't working I would check the struts-config.xml and make sure the redirect attribute from the forward node isn't set to "true". A redirect will dispose of all request attributes and parameters.

Request scope will persist for only the life of the request.

example:

<forward name="gfHelloWorld" path="helloWorld.do" redirect="true"></forward>  

[ May 02, 2005: Message edited by: Thomas Mcfarrow ]

[anupa oru]

Hi,
I am little bit curious about did you tried whatever Thomas Mcfarrow told. Since I know you don't want to store object for session span you can use request object instead.If you tried his suggestion pls let me know.
Thanks

[Elle Atechsy]

Thanks, Thomas. It does work. I thought I tried that, but maybe I forgot to restart the server.

Thanks again!!!