Hi,

Can anyone please clarify this question on websphere portal specific StrutsA
ction class and the regular Action class?

Appreciate your help in advance.


I have a portlet, which has regular struts components and portal specific st
ruts components.

My basic action class extends from action class

class BasicAction extends Action{}

this is the first class that gets called before the portlet is rendered.

This  "BasicAction" class calls some business helper to execute some busines
s logic and depending on the results, it calls another action class.

Now this action class "MyStrutsPortletAction" extends from "StrutsAction" cl
XXX

class MyStrutsPortletAction extends StrutsAction{}

!-- struts-config snippet --

<action path="/welcome" type="BasicAction">
<forward name="success" path="callStrutsAction.do"/>
</action>

<action path="/callStrutsAction" type="MyStrutsPortletAction">
<forward name="success" path="test.jsp"/>
</action>


Question---

1.) From my BasicAction class, when i try to forward to the "MyStrutsPorltet
Action" class, it is never getting forwarded to that class.

I read somewhere that Websphere portal does not handle forwards and redirect
s to other action classes. And the article also mentioned that i need to use
 the "forward" method in the "PortletApiUtils" class  to forward to a Struts
Action class.

so i did something like this in my BaiscAction class.
PortletApiUtil pau = PortletApiUtils.getUtilsInstance();
pau.forward("callStrutsAction.do")
this did not work.

Now i have a question here, since the execute method expects an ActionForwar
d object as return, what should i return if i'm using the above statement


I also tried
pau.forward(pau. creatPortletURIWithStrutsURL(HTTPServlet
Request,"callStrutsA
ction.do").toString())

this also did not work.

I'm runnning out of ideas here. Can anyone please help?

thanks

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Hi,

Can anyone please tell me how to forward from a regular Action class to a (P
ortlet specific) StrutsAction class?

Appreciate your help
Thanks

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