[WW-3747] Regular expressions in combination with advanced wildcards doesn't work

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.3
• Component/s: Other
• Labels: advanced redirectAction regex wildcards

Environment

OS: Windows XP
Java: 1.7 (Oracle)

• Assignee: Maurizio Cucchiara
• Reporter: Mo Be
• Created: 25/Jan/12 10:17
• Updated: 14/Apr/12 07:15
• Resolved: 28/Jan/12 18:28

Description

According to the documentation [1] that goes along with advanced wildcards, I tried to implement the following example
where I use advanced wildcards along with some simply regexp pattern and as a redirectAction. I also posted this issue
on the struts mailing list [2].

A)

<action name="/event/modify/{action}/{eventId:[0-9]+}"class="xxxx.actions.event.EventAction">
   <interceptor-ref name="simpleStack" />
   <result name="input">/WEB-INF/pages/myevents/createevent.jsp</result>
   <result name="success" type="redirectAction">
     <param name="actionName">/display/{action}/{eventId}</param>
   </result>
</action>

B)

<action name="/display/{action}/{eventId}" method="input" class="xxx.actions.event.EventAction">
   <interceptor-ref name="simpleStack" />
   <result>/WEB-INF/pages/myevents/createevent.jsp</result>
</action>

A) is working but only if I leave out the regexp part (at least for me)!

Redirecting from A) to B) doesn't work at all.

[1] http://struts.apache.org/2.3.1.2/docs/wildcard-mappings.html
[2] http://www.mail-archive.com/user%40struts.apache.org/msg101469.html

cheers!