Details
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Improvement
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Status: Open
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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1.3.10
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None
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N/A
Description
Being new to Struts, I've searched all over the documentation here:
http://struts.apache.org/1.x/index.html
But it's nearly impossible to get just a basic understanding of the struts-config.xml file and its inner workings. As one example, the "input" attribute of the "action" element is included in several examples but is not actually documented anywhere. Other websites say that the "input" attribute describes where to forward if there is a validation error. Since it is extremely unintuitive that a validation error page is specified by an attribute called "input" (rather than, say, "errorpage"), and since the official documentation should be reasonably thorough when covering the basics of Struts, we really need to have a better description of the Struts configuration XML file. The documentation should contain a thorough explanation of every element and attribute, as well as how the values can map to other elements. (i.e. how an action can be specified in the "path" attribute of a "forward" element by using "actionName.do", how a "forward" attribute of an "action" element can point to a tiles definition in tiles-defs.xml, etc. This wiring of values is very confusing to beginners – especially since the names that were chosen are often misleading – and seems to be poorly documented in the official pages.)