DispatchAction and html:cancel

[Whitney Albrecht]

On my jsp page I have three buttons and a cancel button.

<html:submit property="direction">
<bean:message key="button1">
</html:submit>
<html:submit property="direction">
<bean:message key="button2">
</html:submit>
<html:submit property="direction">
<bean:message key="button3">
</html:submit>
<html:cancel> Cancel </html:cancel>

When the cancel button is hit on the page I get the following error:
javax.servlet.ServletException:Request [/aForm] does not contain handler parameter named 'direction'. This may be caused by whitespace in the label text.
org.apache.struts.DispatchAction.unspecified(DispatchAction.java:224)
org.apache.struts.DispatchAction.dispatchMethod(DispatchAction.java:258)
org.apache.struts.DispatchAction.LookupDispatchAction.execute(LookupDispatchAction.java:162)
...

When the page came up I did a view source and the submit tags get rendered as:

<input type="submit" name="direction" value="button1">
<input type="submit" name="direction" value="button2">
<input type="submit" name="direction" value="button3">
<input type="submit" name="org.apache.struts.taglib.html.CANCEL" value="Cancel" onklick="bCancel=true">

Do I need to configure my own cancel button or how do I configure DispatchAction to recoginize the cancel button?

Thanks in advance.

[srikanth singamsetty]

Hi ,
just replace the below with
<html:cancel> Cancel </html:cancel>
with
<input type="submit" name="direction" value="Cancel" onklick="bCancel=true">
this will work fine for you

[Whitney Albrecht]

To all having a similar problem,

you can use <html:cancel> with the LookupDispatch action ... you just need to override the cancelled function and replace it with what you want to do.

-Whitney
[ September 27, 2005: Message edited by: Whitney Albrecht ]