Extending RequestProcessor

[Skanda Raman]

I am trying to extend RequestProcessor to use custom request processor.

Compilation of below code was successful.

package com.struts.action;
import org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

public class UserRequestProcessor extends RequestProcessor {
	public boolean processPreprocess(HttpServletRequest req,HttpServletResponse res){
		System.out.println("Adding to Logs...");
		log("-----------processPreprocess Logging-------------");
	    log("Request URI = " + req.getRequestURI());
	    log("Context Path = " + req.getContextPath());	    
	    return true;
	}
}

Then i added the below lines to struts-config.xml file and restarted the application

 <controller>
		<set-property  property="processorClass" value="com.struts.action.UserRequestProcessor"/>
	</controller>

Now, i do not find the logs written to file and also the SOP i added in above code is not displaying in console.

I am using jboss-4.0.0 application server.

Can you please let me know if i am doing any thing wrong in customizing the processor.

Thanks in advance

[Ankit Garg]

If you just want to do logging, you might use an interceptor. Also I'm not sure but the log method was depricated I think (as per the documentation), so that may be a reason that it's not working...

[David Newton]

Interceptors are for Struts 2.

I'd consider using Log4J, Commons Logging (which can wrap Log4J), or similar rather than trying to use the built-in logging.