Cancel event in DispatchAction class

[skumar mk]

Hai All,
In my application am using Struts1.2.9.I have a form in that i have multiple buttons like save,continue,Cancel. For this am using DispatchAction class to handle sve & continue.but when i clicked Cancel am geting following ERROR.
Please help me out in how to handle cancel events in appliation where am using DispatchAction class


javax.servlet.ServletException
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processException(RequestProcessor.java:535)
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:211)
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1196)
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:432)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)

root cause

org.apache.struts.action.InvalidCancelException
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processValidate(RequestProcessor.java:942)
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:207)
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1196)
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:432)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)



Thanks in advance
skumar mk

[Merrill Higginson]

In Struts 1.2.9 and above, you must specify cancellable="true" in the action mapping in your struts-config.xml file if you used the cancel button. Since cancel causes validation not to be performed, it's a security issue.