how to pass attributes while forwarding to an action

[martin jose]

Hi guys,


In my application I have one calendar.do action. I can pass an attribte to it by calling it calendar.do?tgdate=1126247219084. In the action I am reading it using request.getParameter("tgdate"). It is working. Now my problem is, I have to come to this action from another action as a forward.

mapping.findForward("success"); where success is calendar.do

I this case how can I pass the date attribute. I tryed setting it as an attribure before forwarding.

request.setAttribute("tgdate",date);
return mapping.findForward("success");

but it is not working. Is there any alternative. I can't put the value in session beacuse I have to invoke it from simple HTML links also.

Hope some of you might have got this same problem. Please give me some tips

Thanx in advance
Martin

[indu menon]

Hi Martin,

Me too have the same problem. If you find a solution please let me know.

Indu

[Graham VMead]

Hi Martin, Indu,

You can do it this way

In your Action Class

ActionForward theForward = actionMapping.findForward("success");
StringBuffer path=new StringBuffer(theForward.getPath());
path.append("?tgdate="+date);

return new ActionForward(path.toString());

There's also a utility class in the Scaffold ConvertUtils class
where you can use called ConvertUtils.addParam you will need to look this up on the net though.

Hope this helps

Graham

[martin jose]

Hi Graham ,


Thanks a lot. It is working perfectly. Thanks for your help.

Martin