SwitchAction

[AnirbanAgartala Bhattacharjee]

Can anyone pls provide some help rgding SwitchAction? I am not becoming able to work it out.I 've defined two configuartion files , namely -
1. web.xml < Code fragment >

<init-param>
<param-name>config</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>


<init-param>
<param-name>config/admin</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config-admin.xml</param-value>
</init-param>

1. struts-config.xml
<action-mappings>
<action
path ="/switch"
type ="org.apache.struts.actions.SwitchAction">
</action>
<action path="/Login123"
name="loginBean"
type="com.action.LoginAction"
input="/jsp/login.jsp"
scope="request"
className=
"com.customMapping.MyActionMapping"
parameter ="method">
<set-property property = "logResults" value = "true" />
<forward name="success"
path="/switch.do?page=/login.do&prefix=/admin"
/>
</action-mappings>

2. Now I ve defined struts-config-admin.xml as follows-

<action
path = "/switch"
type= "org.apache.struts.actions.SwitchAction" />

<action
path = "/admin/login"
name = "loginBean"
type = "com.action.admin.LoginAction"
>
<forward name = "success" path = "/jsp/switchAction.jsp" />
</action>


Now after creating this I am not getting the output.

Regards-
Anirban, Jnior member<SCJP>

[Merrill Higginson]

First of all, the path to your second action in struts-config-admin.xml should be /login instead of /admin/login.

Secondly, According to Struts javadoc, when using this action you have to provide a page parameter and a prefix parameter. Are you doing this?

For example, if you're currently in the main module and you want to switch to the admin module login page, the url would be switch.do?prefix=/admin&page=/login.

Of course, if you're in the main module, you can also accomplish the same thing by calling admin/login.do