struts portlet tutorial, struts portlet, Irshad Mansuri

Prepared by Aasif and Ahmed under the guidance of Irshad Mansuri

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6. Struts Portlet - Adding Redirect to avoid duplicate insertion
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6.1 update struts-config.xml
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add /ext/library/success so that we have a landing path

(location "ext/ext-web/docroot/WEB-INF")

<action path="/ext/library/success" forward="portlet.ext.library.success" />

run "ant deploy" from "ext-web"


6.2 update AddBookAction.java
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* We are going to modify our java to use a redirect instead of a forward
* A forward still submits to the page that it lands on. But a redirect will no longer retain the submit state on the landing page

Comment out the forward line
//setForward(req, "portlet.ext.library.success");

replace with these lines

PortletURL redirectURL = ((ActionResponseImpl) res).createRenderURL();
redirectURL.setParameter("struts_action", "/ext/library/success");
res.sendRedirect(redirectURL + "&title=" + bookTitle);

Make necessary imports


6.3 ant deploy
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ant deploy from "ext-impl", re-start server and check the previous problem is not happening anymore.

6.4 Exercise
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What changes are required if we dont want to display the book title in the success.jsp file.