[SOLVED] How to map URL contains slash in action (Wildcard mapping)

How to map URL contains slash in action (Wildcard mapping)

I have a package name

/cabinet/s

where all actions return JSP snippets.

and the rest of the path of any URL for this package below

/cabinet/s/actionid/snippetgroup/filename.do

actionid - identifier for action class
snippetgroup - identifier of snippets group for certain functionality (this is just a directory name)
filename - JSP filename

<action name="actionid/*/*" class="someclass">
   <result>/WEB-INF/jsp/{1}/{2}.jps</result>
</action>

The problem is that Struts never call a correct class. It always errors that filename action does not exist.

Struts application is configured to use .do extension instead of .action.

Solution

You must set this options in struts.xml according to the documentation:

<constant name="struts.enable.SlashesInActionNames" value="true"/>
<constant name="struts.mapper.alwaysSelectFullNamespace" value="false"/>

and probably remove the .do extension, by setting it to empty (or better to comma, to prevent Struts handling static resources as namespaces):

<constant name="struts.action.extension" value=","/>

Otherwise, you can switch to Advanced Wildcards by using regex Pattern Matcher.