[STR-2587] Enhancements for ActionRedirect

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.7
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: Core, Extras
• Environment: Operating System: other; Platform: Other
• Bugzilla Id: 36698
• Assignee: Paul Benedict
• Reporter: Paul Benedict
• Created: 18/Sep/05 12:50
• Updated: 09/Dec/07 04:12
• Resolved: 09/Dec/07 04:12

Description

Now that Struts 1.2.7 supports the ActionRedirect class, I am constantly finding
myself coding this pattern:
ActionRedirect redirect = new ActionRedirect(mapping.findForward("name"));

Something simpler would be:
ActionRedirect redirect = mapping.findRedirect("name");

Now someone needs to debate the merit of this approach. Should this find any
forward and turn it into an ActionRedirect, or only find forwards that have the
@redirect set to true. I don't know. Let's discuss.

Also, I like to pass form attributes or request parameters from one request to
another. How about a shortcut to populate the parameters like:

redirect.addRequestParameters(request);
redirect.addFormAttributes(form);

Issue Links

• relates to: STR-2499 Find required forward or throw exception