Question

I have many destinations (say 150+) and each destination has 2 different variants:

• A
• B

I have generated a html for each of these variants. For e.g.:

• NewYork-A.html
• NewYork-B.html
• SanFrancisco-A.html
• SanFrancisco-B.html
• LasVegas-A.html
• LasVegas-B.html
  …

generic format being:

• Destination-A.html
• Destination-B.html

each of these files are written to /seo/Destination/

How can I map a given URL to these files in struts 2:

www.mysite.com/NewYork-Tourism => http://www.mysite.com/seo/Destinations/NewYork-A.html AND
www.mysite.com/NewYork-Travel => http://www.mysite.com/seo/Destinations/NewYork-B.html

Generic:

www.mysite.com/Destination-Tourism => http://www.mysite.com/seo/Destinations/Destination-A.html

AND

www.mysite.com/Destination-Travel => http://www.mysite.com/seo/Destinations/Destination-B.html

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One way I can think of doing this is generating as many actions as (destination * variant_types) and then map the result of each of those to the proper html files. Something like this:

<action name="NewYork-Tourism">
    <result name="success">/seo//Destination/NewYork-A.html</result>
</action>
<action name="NewYork-Travel">
    <result name="success">/seo//Destination/NewYork-B.html</result>
</action>

.. and so on

Is there any other (better) way to do this ?

Answer 1

One qquick way which seems to me is to make use of Wildcard Mapping,Struts2 has a way namely Wildcard which seems more suitable to you.

As an application grows in size, so will the number of action mappings. Wildcards can be used to combine similar mappings into one more generic mapping.

something like

<action name="List*s" class="actions.List{1}s">
  <result>list{1}s.jsp</result>
</action>

For more details please refer to the documents

• wildcard-mappings