Understanding Struts 2

[A Phatak]

I have the following Struts 2 xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC
	"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.3//EN"
	"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.3.dtd">

<struts>
    <constant name="struts.devMode" value="true" />
    
	<package name="chapter4" namespace="/chapter4" extends="struts-default">
		<action name="login" class="manning.chapter.four.action.Login">
			<result name="input">/WEB-INF/content/login-input.jsp</result>
			<result>/WEB-INF/content/login-success.jsp</result>
		</action>
	</package>

Everything else is coded correctly and all the specified actions run properly.
However...

http://localhost:8080/StrutsApp/chapterFour/login and http://localhost:8080/StrutsApp/anythingElse/login and http://localhost:8080/StrutsApp/login
all redirect to the login page.

Is that how this is supposed to work?

[Saif Asif]

Greetings Phatak,
No I dont suppose that is how it should be working unless of-course there is some mix-up in the mapping files. I noticed that you have defined 2 results for the action names login .
<result name="input">/WEB-INF/content/login-input.jsp</result> <result>/WEB-INF/content/login-success.jsp</result> <!-- without any name attribute means -->

This is possibly one factor for the mixup. remove the other entry without the name attribute and try to run the app again.

[Lalit Mehra]

Hi Phatak,

It might be so ... It might be programmed to work like that only ... just imagine why three actions can't redirect to the same page ???

[Saif Asif]

Yes of-course , that can also be the possibility that it was designed to work that way just as Lalit said .