I'm setting up an application that uses Struts 2.3 and Tiles 2. Some pages will be heavily Struts driven (e.g. lots of CRUD) while others will be simple, static HTML/JSP pages. I want to set up some actions that handle specific functionality and send all other URLs to a default action, which will check to see if the appropriate static page exists based on the supplied path. If not, a 404 error or some such will be generated instead.
In struts.xml, I have applied a basic configuration that appears like it should work; however, Struts seems to ignore the wildcard action. The non-wildcard actions work just fine.
Here's the struts.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.3//EN"
"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.3.dtd">
<struts>
<!--
You could also set the constants in the struts.properties file
placed in the same directory as struts.xml
-->
<constant name="struts.devMode" value="true" />
<!-- <constant name="struts.mapper.class" value="rest" /> -->
<constant name="struts.action.extension" value="," />
<constant name="struts.enable.SlashesInActionNames" value="true"/>
<constant name="struts.mapper.alwaysSelectFullNamespace" value="false"/>
<constant name="struts.patternMatcher" value="regex" />
<!--
<constant name="struts.convention.action.suffix" value="Controller"/>
<constant name="struts.convention.action.mapAllMatches" value="true"/>
<constant name="struts.convention.default.parent.package" value="rest-default"/>
<constant name="struts.convention.package.locators" value="rest"/>
-->
<package name="base" extends="tiles-default" abstract="yes">
<result-types>
<result-type name="tiles" default="true" class="org.apache.struts2.views.tiles.TilesResult" />
<result-type name="json" class="org.apache.struts2.json.JSONResult"/>
</result-types>
<interceptors>
<interceptor name="json" class="org.apache.struts2.json.JSONInterceptor"/>
<!-- <interceptor name="requestConstants" class="com.ibm.gbs.vdp.constants.ConstantsInterceptor" /> -->
<interceptor-stack name="mainStack">
<interceptor-ref name="defaultStack"/>
<interceptor-ref name="json" />
<!-- <interceptor-ref name="session" /> -->
<!-- <interceptor-ref name="requestConstants" /> -->
</interceptor-stack>
</interceptors>
<default-interceptor-ref name="mainStack" />
<global-results>
<result name="login" type="tiles">login</result>
</global-results>
</package>
<!-- package start -->
<package name="main" extends="base" namespace="/">
<action name="login">
<result type="tiles">login</result>
</action>
<action name="logout" class="com.gswt.common.action.LogoutAction">
<result name="success">login</result>
</action>
<action name="*" class="com.installation.action.PageAction">
<result type="tiles">standard-page</result>
</action>
</package>
<!-- package end -->
<!-- package start -->
<package name="licenses" extends="base" namespace="/licenses">
</package>
<!-- package end -->
<!-- package start -->
<package name="checklists" extends="base" namespace="/checklists">
</package>
<!-- package end -->
<!-- package start -->
<package name="error" extends="base" namespace="/error">
<action name="404">
<result type="tiles">error-404</result>
</action>
</package>
<!-- package end -->
</struts>
And here's an example of the error I receive:
There is no Action mapped for namespace [/] and action name [page] associated with context path []. - [unknown location]
com.opensymphony.xwork2.DefaultActionProxy.prepare(DefaultActionProxy.java:185)
org.apache.struts2.impl.StrutsActionProxy.prepare(StrutsActionProxy.java:63)
org.apache.struts2.impl.StrutsActionProxyFactory.createActionProxy(StrutsActionProxyFactory.java:39)
com.opensymphony.xwork2.DefaultActionProxyFactory.createActionProxy(DefaultActionProxyFactory.java:58)
org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.serviceAction(Dispatcher.java:553)
org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.ExecuteOperations.executeAction(ExecuteOperations.java:77)
org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter.doFilter(StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter.java:99)
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.FilterInstanceWrapper.doFilter(FilterInstanceWrapper.java:190)
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:125)
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain._doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:80)
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterManager.doFilter(WebAppFilterManager.java:908)
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterManager.invokeFilters(WebAppFilterManager.java:997)
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.extension.DefaultExtensionProcessor.invokeFilters(DefaultExtensionProcessor.java:1079)
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.extension.DefaultExtensionProcessor.handleRequest(DefaultExtensionProcessor.java:999)
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.handleRequest(WebApp.java:3954)
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebGroup.handleRequest(WebGroup.java:276)
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WebContainer.handleRequest(WebContainer.java:945)
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.handleRequest(WSWebContainer.java:1592)
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.channel.WCChannelLink.ready(WCChannelLink.java:191)
com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleDiscrimination(HttpInboundLink.java:453)
com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleNewRequest(HttpInboundLink.java:515)
com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.processRequest(HttpInboundLink.java:306)
com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.ready(HttpInboundLink.java:277)
com.ibm.ws.ssl.channel.impl.SSLConnectionLink.determineNextChannel(SSLConnectionLink.java:1049)
com.ibm.ws.ssl.channel.impl.SSLConnectionLink$MyReadCompletedCallback.complete(SSLConnectionLink.java:643)
com.ibm.ws.ssl.channel.impl.SSLReadServiceContext$SSLReadCompletedCallback.complete(SSLReadServiceContext.java:1784)
com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.AioReadCompletionListener.futureCompleted(AioReadCompletionListener.java:175)
com.ibm.io.async.AbstractAsyncFuture.invokeCallback(AbstractAsyncFuture.java:217)
com.ibm.io.async.AsyncChannelFuture.fireCompletionActions(AsyncChannelFuture.java:161)
com.ibm.io.async.AsyncFuture.completed(AsyncFuture.java:138)
com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.complete(ResultHandler.java:204)
com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.runEventProcessingLoop(ResultHandler.java:775)
com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler$2.run(ResultHandler.java:905)
com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1656)
What am I missing or doing wrong?
Since you are using advanced wildcards then your action name should be a valid regex expression to match the configuration.
Like so
<action name="{.*}" class="com.installation.action.PageAction">
<result type="tiles">standard-page</result>
</action>