Redirecting from one action to another, want to pass parameters

[Mallika R Kumar]

Hi,
I have a web page with hyper-links to different Struts action classes. When one hyper-link is clicked on the web page's form, I am redirecting control to another action. I am using javascript to pass some parameters to the first action. Now, I want to pass these parameters to the second action. But when I redirect, the servlet container creates a new request object, right ? I don't want to pass parameters in the url. Is using the session object my only other solution ? Will I be able to use forward action, ie, set redirect to false when I'm creating the new ActionForward for my destination ?

Thanks for your responses.

Mallika.

[Rup Ped]

Here is one approach you can think of:

You can create hidden fields in the form which has links to other actions. And when the links are clicked, you can call a javascript function to populate the hidden fields with the corresponding values based on the clicked action. And ofcourse your form-bean for the current form should have the hidden fields also, declared as attributes with getters/setters for them.

-Rup

[sreenath reddy]

Hi

Is there any specific reason for uring redirect in ur action class to another action class ?? ofcourse redirect creates another request and u will loose the attributes but if u can send them in the url no issues .........

so better solution is use forward than redirect if u dont have any specific reason for this

[Ivy Kho]

you can put it in the request.setAttribute object and carry it around i guess

[Mallika R Kumar]

Thanks! Not using redirect solved the problem.

[anson cai]

you can use getRequestDispatch() to get a RequestDispatch, and add an attribute to the request, then forword this requestDispatch with request and response.It should be all right.