Question

This worked a month ago and now i reload the code and it doesn’t work. here is my struts snip

    <action name="checkManager" class="CheckAction">
        <result>/pages/check_manager.jsp</result>
    </action>

    <action name="submitFile" class="SubmitFileAction">
        <result name="success">/pages/submit_file.jsp</result>
        <result name="error">/pages/check_manager.jsp</result>
    </action>

So, the first page is checkManager. it has a button that calls the submitFile action. When that fires, it checks a password, if it fails the action class sends an error result. Now a month ago the result error above would redirect the user back to the original check_manager.jsp page complete with data that was loaded originally and the error message. Today, it redirects the user to the raw check_manager.jsp page. no data, its like the servlet never fired and its just rendering a blank jsp page. I checked the source history and nothing has changed in this application.

I don’t understand why this would stop working, can anyone give me an idea? i have to present this to the client in about an hour and a half so i’m really stuck here.

note, i tried changing the error to this

<result name="error" type="redirectAction">checkManager</result>

and I get my data back, but i loose my error message which isn’t a good thing. ugh, any ideas?

if (enteredHash.equals(storedHash)) {
            _log.debug("The password matched");
            UserSession<User> userSession = (UserSession<User>) session
                    .get("user");
            #do logic#
        } else {
            _log.debug("The password didn't match");
            addActionError("The password you entered was incorrect, nothing was sent to the bank.");
            return ActionSupport.ERROR;
        }
        return ActionSupport.SUCCESS;

my jsp

<s:if test="hasActionErrors()">
            <div class="errors">
            <s:actionerror/>
            </div><br>
        </s:if>

again, this worked perfectly a month ago. All i did was check out that branch which has been untouched and deploy it. Now it doesn’t work.

Answer 1

A quick fix could be to add this to getCheckList in the CheckAction:

public Collection<Check> getCheckList() { 
   ActionContext.getContext().getSession().put("checkList", checkList);
   return checkList; 
}

and add this to the SubmitFileAction:

public Collection<Check> getCheckList() { 
   return (Collection<Check>) ActionContext.getContext().getSession().get("checkList"); 
}

This is not a good permanent solution but should get you where you need to get in a crunch!