Delete html:errors listing

[Joshua Elkino]

How do i remove the errors? After i list the errors on the page i want to reset the html:errors. I assumed it was being stored in the request attribute, but after i clear that (and i see that it goes away) i still see the errors listed.. and every refresh causes the same exception being written out.

here is my current code.

 <html:errors />
<%request.removeAttribute("org.apache.struts.action.ERROR");
 request.removeAttribute("org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE");%>
  
 <%
 Enumeration en = request.getAttributeNames();
 
    while (en.hasMoreElements()) {
      String key = (String) en.nextElement();
      out.println(key + " -- " + request.getAttribute(key) +  "<br/>");
      }
   %>

since i'm catching the error and passing it along, the original time i should see this for example.
You do not have the appropriate privileges to perform this action

but if i refresh the page say 3 more times, i see
You do not have the appropriate privileges to perform this action
You do not have the appropriate privileges to perform this action
You do not have the appropriate privileges to perform this action
You do not have the appropriate privileges to perform this action

How do i fix this?

Thanks

[Joshua Elkino]

I guess i should also mention i'm doing forwarding to that page. (account.jsp)

I mention this because if i do a new direct request to that same page (account.jsp), all the messages are gone. But if i call the link (doadminstuff.jsp) that causes the request processor to check for privileges and then forwards to that page and adds an error, i get all those errors. EVEN when i log out and invalidate and log back in.

I wouldn't think this is cached since the # of errors always increases.

here is the request processor code

private ActionMessages errors = new ActionMessages();
 
...
 
// If the user is not a privileged user, redirect and show error
if (u.getPrivilege().getId().intValue() >= 4) { 
    errors.add("privilege", new ActionMessage("message.required.privileges"));
    request.setAttribute(Globals.ERROR_KEY, errors);
    request.getRequestDispatcher("/myaccount.do").forward(request,response);
return false;
}

[Tom Rispoli]

Do you have code to re-initialize the errors object in your request processor everytime it gets called? I think request processors only have a single instance so that errors object may be getting re-used everytime if its a class level variable.

[Joshua Elkino]

Yup doing a errors.clear() right before adding the errors worked! Thanks.