[STR-423] Struts fails silently in too many places

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Reopened
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Nightly Build
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: Core
• Environment: Operating System: All; Platform: All
• Bugzilla Id: 5739
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Frank Lawlor
• Created: 08/Jan/02 15:58
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:28

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.

Issue Links

• depends upon: STR-1870 Tiles1 plugin should fail-fast when loaded twice
• depends upon: STR-3073 Tiles2 plugin should fail-fast when loaded twice
• depends upon: STR-3094 Emit error to log when input forward does not exist
• incorporates: STR-1819 Warn if a form is not declared but used by an action
• incorporates: STR-2904 Validator plugin should fail-fast when loaded twice
• is depended upon by: STR-786 Make error messages more specific (omnibus issue)