Sitemesh doesnt decorate any pages after action class is called

[David Brave]

Hello, I have a problem with sitemesh.
I have 2 pages, Login.jsp and Success.jsp
Heres my decorator.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<decorators defaultdir="/decorators">
 <decorator name="main" page="main.jsp">
  <pattern>/*</pattern>
 </decorator>
 
</decorators>

If I use this pattern, then both my Login.jsp and Success.jsp are decorated.
If I switch the pattern to this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<decorators defaultdir="/decorators">
 <decorator name="main" page="main.jsp">
  <pattern>/pages/Login.jsp</pattern>
 </decorator>
</decorators>

Then only Login.jsp is decorated (as expected).
But If I change the pattern to

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<decorators defaultdir="/decorators">
 <decorator name="main" page="main.jsp">
  <pattern>/pages/Success.jsp</pattern>
 </decorator>
</decorators>

Then my Success.jsp page doesnt get decorated.
Success.jsp is called after Login.jsp subits its data to my action class. The action class loads the Success.jsp page.
It loads it without being decorated. The only thing I can think of is if sitemesh isnt working with my action classes,
but I havent read about anyone having this issue.
here is my struts.xml file

<struts>
	<constant name="struts.devMode" value="true"/>
	<constant name="struts.objectFactory" value="guice"/>
	
	<package name="org.webhop.ywdc" namespace="/" extends="struts-default">
	
	
		<action name="login" class="org.webhop.ywdc.LoginAction">
				<interceptor-ref name="params"/>
				<interceptor-ref name="cookie">
     				<param name="userId" />
  				</interceptor-ref>
				
		        <result name="success" type="dispatcher">/pages/Success.jsp</result>
		        <result name="error" type="redirect">login.action</result>
		</action>
		
		<action name="logout" class="org.webhop.ywdc.LogoutAction" >
		       <result name="success" type="redirect">/</result>
		</action>
		
		<action name="editcellentry" class="org.webhop.ywdc.EditCellEntryAction">
			 <result name="success" type="dispatcher">/pages/Success.jsp</result>
		</action>
	</package>
	
	<package name="example" namespace="/" extends="json-default">
	
		<result-types>
        	<result-type name="json" class="com.googlecode.jsonplugin.JSONResult"/>
    	</result-types>
  
		<action name="jsonaction" class="example.JsonAction">
			<result type="json" />	
		</action>
	
	</package>
	
</struts>

Does anyone know why it would ignore the jsp pages that are called up from an action class?
Please help me if you have any ideas whatsoever.

sincerely,
thebravedave

[David Brave]

As an after note to my post above:

When my browser calls up Success.jsp (after authentication occurs), the browser shows the action in the url, not the Success.jsp page.

ie: http://localhost:8080/Authentication/login.action

vs: http://localhost:8080/Authentication/Success.jsp

So mabey sitemesh is not recognizing my actions page direction?

thebravedave

[David Brave]

Found my answer.

in my web.xml file, where you specify the filter mapping for sitemesh, you must declare when you want the dispatcher to use the sitemesh
framework. I didnt originally specify any <dispatcher>'s in my web.xml file, which meant that it was only picking up requests, not when
the action was setup to forward to a jsp page, like with my Success.jsp page.
i set my filter-mappings up as below to have sitemesh start working with my actions that forward.
hope this helps someone...

 <filter-mapping>
	     <filter-name>guiceFilter</filter-name>
	     <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
     </filter-mapping>
	 <filter-mapping>
	    <filter-name>sitemesh</filter-name>
	 	<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
	 	 <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
	 	 <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
	 </filter-mapping>  

thebravedave