Upgrading to Struts 6

[Johnson Ragaskli]

I have a java webapp which is currently using Struts 2.5. I am trying to upgrade it to Struts 6.

I followed the instructions in the following tutorial:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WW/Struts+2.5+to+6.0.0+migration

However, in my struts.xml file, I have mappings like this:

<action name="Search!*" class="org.myCompany.SearchAction" method="{1}">
	<result name="results">/results.jsp</result>
	<result name="error">/error.jsp</result>
</action>

When I try to follow a link like:

Search!startSearch.action

instead of calling the method startSearch, it silently drops the !startSearch and gives me an error about no execute method being found.

Has Struts 6 dropped support for the dynamic method="{1}" tags? I have other working actions with explicit methods like this:

<action name="Search!*" class="org.myCompany.SearchAction" method="startSearch">
	<result name="results">/results.jsp</result>
	<result name="error">/error.jsp</result>
</action>

The existing webapp does work with the {1} method syntax in Struts 2.5.

Any ideas about why the method="{1}" syntax doesn't work in Struts 6 and the best way to fix it?

Thanks!

[Roland Mueller]

Hello and Welcome to the Coderanch!

For making your problem with upgrade to Struts 6 visible you should give more information about the error and post all relevant error message(s) from the logs here. This may shed more light on the reason why execute() method was not found.

[Y Jebin Jebin]

The same exception was raised for me also. It was fixed by updating to  struts2-jquery-plugin-5.0.3. Surely it will work.