Actionforward Problem

[amit sharma]

In my action class what i need is that whenever user successfully authenticated i redirect it to another page .I am able to do redirect but now i have to hard code the path in action class .Can i use the path which is associated with forward name ="success" and do redirect instead of forward .
Thanks

[Jan Groth]

sure you can... what exactly is your problem?

you define as many mappings and forwards as you want in the struts-config.xml and use business code in the action to determine the appropriate forwards.

this should work without any problems or troubles.

pls post details about your problem,
jan

[Merrill Higginson]

In order to create a forward that redirects, simply specify redirect="true" in the forward definition in your struts-config.xml file.

[amit sharma]

I specify redirect=true in struts config and it solve my problem .Thanks a lot.I have another doubt regarding ActionForward.
Let i have this action mapping in struts

 <action-mappings>
   <action   path="/login"
   type="loginAction"
   name="loginForm"
   input="/login.jsp"
   validate="true"
   scope="request">
   <forward name="failure" path="/jsp/login.jsp"/>
   <forward name="success" path="/jsp/frontpage.jsp"/>
  </action>

In above code i declare 2 forwards and in action class i made ActionForward
object and i return that ActionForward .Suppose i need to redirect to path specify by forward "success" (without declaring redirect in struts.config).
How to do this
Thanks

[Merrill Higginson]

Here's how you'd do it:

ActionForward forward = new ActionForward(mapping.findForward("success").getPath());
forward.setRedirect(true);
return forward;

[amit sharma]

Thanks a lot this is what i want.
Thanks