Using an ActionForward from within a custom tag in Struts 1.1

[Brian J. Sayatovic]

I've got custom tag where, under certain conditions, I'd like to
forward the request to a forward defined in the struts config. Under
Struts 1.0, I saw an example where one could get at the necessary
information through objects stored under the request attributes using
the keys defined under the Action class.

However, in Struts 1.1, all of these things are deprecated. So,
what's the new way to get at this information?

Or does someone have a better design?

Regards,
Brian.

 

[Brian J. Sayatovic]

OK, I figured it out. It is stored as a request attribute under the
key defined by the constant Globals.MAPPING_KEY. This is actually
pretty much the same place it was in Struts 1.0, but when I tried this
in Struts 1.1, it didn't work at first.

Turns out, somehow during my late-night coding session, I overlooked
the fact that I was trying to get the value out of the ServletContext
attributes instead of the request attributes.

So, now, my custom tag can pull a forward out of the mappings to
forward to in certain conditions.

Regards,
Brian.