Struts - Validate, forward and re-direct.

1. What kind of errors? Validation errors?

2. No AFAIK.

Yes..Validation errors.
:-)

I am getting "sess" cannot be resolved.

Do i need to create a local variable like:

ServletRequest sess = null;

whoops sorry...

I am getting:

The method getSession() is undefined for the type ServletRequest

:-(

You have to return an HttpSession object. Look at my comment above.

Yes...I included that and got that error. This is what i have now:

public class MyFilter implements Filter {
   
    /* (non-Javadoc)
     * @see javax.servlet.Filter#doFilter(javax.servlet.ServletRequest, javax.servlet.ServletResponse, javax.servlet.FilterChain)
     */
    public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response,
                               FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
              
        HttpSession sess =  request.getSession();
        Object err = sess.getAttribute( org.apache.struts.Globals.ERROR_KEY );
        sess.removeAttribute( org.apache.struts.Globals.ERROR_KEY );
        if( err != null ) {
            request.setAttribute( org.apache.struts.Globals.ERROR_KEY, err ) ;
          chain.doFilter( request, response ) ;
        }
    }

    /* (non-Javadoc)
     * @see javax.servlet.Filter#init(javax.servlet.FilterConfig)
     */
    public void init(FilterConfig arg0) throws ServletException {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
       
    }

    /* (non-Javadoc)
     * @see javax.servlet.Filter#destroy()
     */
    public void destroy() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
       
    }
}

but i get the above error.

public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response,
                            FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
             
        HttpSession sess =  ((HttpServletRequest)request).getSession();
        Object err = sess.getAttribute( org.apache.struts.Globals.ERROR_KEY );
        sess.removeAttribute( org.apache.struts.Globals.ERROR_KEY );
        if( err != null ) {
            request.setAttribute( org.apache.struts.Globals.ERROR_KEY, err ) ;
          chain.doFilter( request, response ) ;
        }
    }

Can you try this:

HttpSession sess =  ((HttpServletRequest) request).getSession();

Or just change the parameter to be of type HttpServletRequest/Response

Ok..thanks....

now, where should i put:

<filter>
    <filter-name>requestfilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>my.package.MyFilter</filter-class>
  </filter>

in my web.xml file. I am getting errors if i put anywhere in the file. This is my web.xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app>
      <servlet>
            <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
            <servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class>
            <init-param>
                  <param-name>config</param-name>
                  <param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
            </init-param>
            <init-param>
                  <param-name>debug</param-name>
                  <param-value>3</param-value>
            </init-param>
            <init-param>
                  <param-name>detail</param-name>
                  <param-value>3</param-value>
            </init-param>
            <load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup>
      </servlet>
      <servlet-mapping>
            <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
            <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
      </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

Ok...didnt show any error in the file. but i am getting the following error in my 'Console':

15:05:38,660 INFO  [TomcatDeployer] undeploy, ctxPath=/KalendarTool, warUrl=file:/C:/Programme/jboss/server/default/deploy/KalendarTool.war/
15:05:38,785 INFO  [TomcatDeployer] deploy, ctxPath=/KalendarTool, warUrl=file:/C:/Programme/jboss/server/default/deploy/KalendarTool.war/
15:05:39,129 INFO  [PropertyMessageResources] Initializing, config='org.apache.struts.action.ActionResources', returnNull=true
15:05:39,175 ERROR [Digester] Begin event threw exception
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

// blah..blah..

Caused by: java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraints violated when linking org/apache/struts/action/ActionMapping class
      at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
      at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:141)
      at org.apache.struts.config.FormBeanConfig.class$(FormBeanConfig.java:190)
      at org.apache.struts.config.FormBeanConfig.setType(FormBeanConfig.java:190)
      ... 97 more
15:05:39,191 ERROR [ActionServlet] Parsing error processing resource path
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

// blah..blah..

Thanks for your responses. I will award points. Meanwhile, Please tell me how can i resolve this.

My web.xml is as follows:

<web-app>
  <filter>
      <filter-name> requestfilter </filter-name>
      <filter-class>de.grassgmbh.kalendartool.filters.MyFilter</filter-class>
  </filter>
<servlet>
// blah...blah..

There is a parsing error somewhere. Does it happen when you try to forward or call a JSP page? Can you post your forward code?

The error is shown when i save the web.xml file !

Is it problem in detecting the MyFilter Package?

I have:

KalendarTool
|
|____ src
|           |
|           |___ de.grassgmbh.kalendartool
|           |                   |
|           |                   |____ resources.properties
|           |
|           |___ de.grassgmbh.kalendartool.form
|           |                   |
|           |                   |___ FilterForm.java
|           |                   |___ RegisterMaskForm.java
|           |                  
|           |___ de.grassgmbh.kalendartool.action                  
|           |                   |
|           |                   |___ FilterAction.java
|           |                   |___ RegisterMaskAction.java
|           |
|           |___ de.grassgmbh.kalendartool.filters
|                               |
|                               |___ MyFilter.java
|
|_____ We-Root
               |
               |____ WEB-INF
               |           |
               |           |____ struts-config.xml, web.xml, etc..
               |
               |____ jsp
                           |
                           |____ MynageCapacity
               |                           |
                                            |____ FilterList.jsp
                                            |____ RegisterMaskList.jsp
                                            |____ ShowList.jsp

BTW,

  <filter-class>de.grassgmbh.kalendartool.filters.MyFilter</filter-class>  refers to the Filter Class.

but why and where we use: <filter-name> requestfilter </filter-name>

?

Thanks.

Can you post the xml file?

> <filter-name> requestfilter </filter-name>

The <filter-name> tag defines the logical name of the filter that you use to access it. It can be different than the actual filter class.

Thanks again. :-)

I posted here:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21098119/To-girinois-TimYates.html