Struts Forward Redirect with Parameter

[Scott Selikoff]

I have a struts action that defines a forward action such as the follow:

<struts-config>
    ...
    <action-mappings>
        ...
        <action path="/processWidget"
            ...
            <forward name="yay" path="/happyWidget.do" redirect="true"/>
        </action>
    
    </action-mappings>
 
</struts-config>

My action code forwards to "yay" based on some control logic such as:

public class WidgetActions extends MappingDispatchAction {
public ActionForward widgetSubmitted(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
            HttpServletRequest request,
            HttpServletResponse response) {
        ...
        if(isHappyWidget) {
           return mapping.findForward("yay");
        }
        ...
    }

Question is this: Can I pass a url/form parameter to "/happyWidget.do" on the redirect? If so, how? It seems to lose any information I set in the form if redirect is set.
[ May 29, 2008: Message edited by: Scott Selikoff ]

[Scott Selikoff]

Actually I managed to solve it one way by modifying the ActionForward object. Granted you can't modify it directly (without throwing a frozen configuration exception), so the following works although it doesn't seem right to me.

final ActionForward successAction = mapping.findForward("yay");
ActionForward modifiedSuccessAction = new ActionForward();
modifiedSuccessAction.setName(successAction.getName());
modifiedSuccessAction.setPath(successAction.getPath()+"?widgetId="+widgetId);
modifiedSuccessAction.setRedirect(true);
return modifiedSuccessAction;

[ May 29, 2008: Message edited by: Scott Selikoff ]