[STR-2363] [docs] document that landing on target anchors when coming from struts-config.xml 'forward path="/myAction.do"' declaration inside an action element only works if redirect="true"

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.x
• Component/s: Documentation
• Environment: Operating System: All; Platform: PC
• Bugzilla Id: 33547
• Assignee: Paul Benedict
• Reporter: Ralf Hauser
• Created: 14/Feb/05 05:04
• Updated: 08/Jun/08 04:46

Description

<!ELEMENT forward (icon?, display-name?, description?, set-property*)>
...
<!ATTLIST forward name CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST forward path %RequestPath; #REQUIRED>

there is no "anchor" attribute.

Please enhance the documentation to say how one can land after an action on a
target anchor inside the landing jsp page? Or if that is not possible, enhance
the dtd and implementation correspondingly.

The same IS possible when referencing an action form a html:link
<html:link page="/loadUser.do#bottom">Link</html:link>
and
<html:link page="/loadUser.do" anchor="bottom">Link</html:link>
both do work.

Similar to STR-1608, im struts-config.xml
<action path="/go" type="tld.myDom.myApp.GoToAction">
<forward name="goBottom" path="/loadUser.do#bottom" />
</action>
basically causes a 404 error, but as by the description there,
<action path="/go" type="tld.myDom.myApp.GoToAction">
<forward name="goBottom" path="/loadUser.do?def=mypage&a=a#bottom" />
</action>
still does not land at the target anchor, but at least, the navigation no longer
breaks down.
Same with the workaround explained in STR-1626 - doesn't work, but no longer
breaks.

perhaps
StringBuffer path = new StringBuffer(64);
path.append(actionMapping.findForward("success").getPath());
path.append("#bottom");
return new ActionForward(path.toString());
works, but why bother the action with such navigation details?