The action name cannot be the same as the action suffix [Action]

[sanjay degala]

Hello,

My struts 2 application doesn't start and is giving an the following error when I try to start it

SEVERE: Exception starting filter struts2
The action name cannot be the same as the action suffix [Action] - Class: org.apache.struts2.convention.SEOActionNameBuilder

anyideas why we get this error?

[Gian Franco]

Is your action name Action?

[sanjay degala]

No, my action name isn't action it is RequestSearchAction and it extends ActionSupport

[Gian Franco]

sanjay degala wrote:No, my action name isn't action it is RequestSearchAction and it extends ActionSupport

Oh ok, have a look at this page does something ring a bell?

[sanjay degala]

Yeah.. That explains that error occurs if the name of the action is Action . But my action class name is different. I am still not understanding what's causing that error.

[Gian Franco]

sanjay degala wrote:Yeah.. That explains that error occurs if the name of the action is Action . But my action class name is different. I am still not understanding what's causing that error.

Of course, that's clear...but can you for example try to include the source jar containing SEOActionNameBuilder in your IDE
and debug it stepwise until you enter the method that throws the following exception?

throw new IllegalStateException("The action name cannot be the same as the action suffix [" + actionSuffix + "]");

You might see what's causing that error.

[Atul Tewari]

Did you get a resolution? I ran into the same problem upgrading from Struts 2.0.11 to Struts 2.2.1. I ran it in debug and the SEOActionNameBuilder class did receive an action name "action" But when I checked the entire codebase, I did not see any class called "action". On stack trace it does not give which package the "action" class is coming from.

Ideas, thoughts?

Could it be that struts.xml has the following with everything listed as list.action? etc.

<action name="*/*" class="com.company.i3.action.{1}Action" method="{2}">
<interceptor-ref name="companyStack"/>
<result name="redirect-list" type="redirect">/{1}/list.action</result>

Thanks in advance

[Atul Tewari]

It is org.apache.struts.action.Action. Why is it even looking at struts classes? How do I exclude them from the SEOActionNameBuilder match?

Is there an exclude parameter?

Thanks

[Atul Tewari]

The struts-plugin.xml for conventions is already using

struts.convention.exclude.packages org.apache.struts.*,
org.apache.struts2.*,
org.springframework.web.struts.*,
org.springframework.web.struts2.*,
org.hibernate.*

to exclude packages from org.apache.struts.*

At this point - not sure how to exclude these packages. Any help would be much appreciated.

[Jerry Mahone]

Was this ever satisfactorily resolved? I am having the same problem in my Struts 1 + Struts 2 + rest plugin environment.

[Mohana Rao Sv]

I had faced the same problem but my mistake is i had imported ActionSupport from spring not from struts.

[Jerry Mahone]

So, my issue was a configuration mistake. I went and read the FAQ, always a good idea, and saw that the struts.xml must be in the WEB-INF/classes directory. I had read that it should be in the src directory along with other resources; I took that literally and had it in my src/resources directory along with other property files. Anyway, being an optional file, everything was silently good, until I added the rest and convention plugin jars. Then I started seeing the action name error I previously posted. Having (now) read the FAQ, I moved the struts.xml to the WEB-INF/classes directory, and all is good.