Struts fails silently in too many places

• Key: STR-423
• Type: Improvement
• Status: Reopened
• Priority: Minor
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Frank Lawlor
• Component/s: Core
• Affects Version/s: Nightly Build
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0

Environment

Operating System: All
Platform: All

Description

When something is specified incorrectly, usually in
struts-config.xml or invocation of struts methods,
the result is nothing! No exception, no log entry.

Among the people I work with and from many forum posts
it seems like this is a common source of frustration
for struts developers. Some specific examples:

- If the ActionForm name is not defined in struts-config, silence
- If the ActionForward string is not found, silence
- If no app.properties found, pretty close to silence
- if you say html:text indexed="yes" (should be "true"), silence
  (note, the documentation implies it should be "yes")
  (many tag errors just result in silence)
- If the ActionError type is not found, silence

Most of these should cause exceptions and/or log entries.