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Struts 2 – Configuration Files
Here we use basic configuration which is required for a Struts 2 application. Here we will see what can be configured with the help of few important configuration files like web.xml, struts.xml, strutsconfig.xml and struts.properties
Honestly speaking, you can start working by just using web.xml and struts.xml configuration files (as you have already witnessed in our previous chapter where our example worked using these two files). However, for your knowledge we will explain regarding other files also.
The web.xml File
The web.xml configuration file is a J2EE configuration file that determines how elements of the HTTP request are processed by the servlet container. It is not strictly a Struts2 configuration file, but it is a file that needs to be configured for Struts2 to work.
As discussed earlier, this file provides an entry point for any web application. The entry point of Struts2 application will be a filter defined in deployment descriptor (web.xml). Hence we will define an entry of FilterDispatcher class in web.xml. The web.xml file needs to be created under the folder WebContent/WEB-INF.
This is the first configuration file you will need to configure if you are starting without the aid of a template or tool that generates it (such as Eclipse or Maven2).
Following is the content of web.xml file which we used in our last example.
< ?xml version ="1.0"Encoding="UTF-8"?> < web-appxmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" id="WebApp_ID"version="3.0"> < display-name>Struts 2< /display-name> < welcome-file-list> < welcome-file>index.jsp< /welcome-file> < /welcome-file-list> < filter> < filter-name>struts2< /filter-name> < filter-class> org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher < /filter-class> < /filter> < filter-mapping> < filter-name>struts2< /filter-name> < url-pattern>/*< /url-pattern> < /filter-mapping> < /web-app>
Note that we map the Struts 2 filter to /*, and not to /*.action which means that all urls will be parsed by the struts filter. We will cover this when we will go through the Annotations chapter.
The Struts.xml File
The struts.xml file contains the configuration information that you will be modifying as actions are developed. This file can be used to override default settings for an application, for example struts.devMode = false and other settings which are defined in property file. This file can be created under the folder WEB-INF/classes.
Let us have a look at the struts.xml file we created in the Hello World example explained in previous chapter.
< ?xml version ="1.0"Encoding="UTF-8"?> < !DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.0//EN" "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.0.dtd"> < struts> < constantname="struts.devMode"value="true"/> < packagename="helloworld"extends="struts-default"> < actionname="hello" class="com.ducatindia.struts2.HelloWorldAction" method="execute"> < resultname="success">/HelloWorld.jsp< /result> < /action> <-- more actions can be listed here --> < /package> <-- more packages can be listed here --> < /struts>
The first thing to note is the DOCTYPE. All struts configuration file needs to have the correct doctype as shown in our little example. < struts> is the root tag element, under which we declare different packages using < package> tags. Here < package> allows separation and modularization of the configuration. This is very useful when you have a large project and project is divided into different modules.
For example, if your project has three domains – business_application, customer_application and staff_application, then you could create three packages and store associated actions in the appropriate package.
The package tag has the following attributes −
Sr.No | Attribute & Description |
---|---|
1 |
name (required)The unique identifier for the package |
2 |
extendsWhich package does this package extend from? By default, we use struts-default as the base package. |
3 |
abstractIf marked true, the package is not available for end user consumption. |
4 |
namespaceUnique namespace for the actions |
The constant tag along with name and value attributes should be used to override any of the following properties defined in default.properties, like we just set struts.devMode property. Setting struts.devMode property allows us to see more debug messages in the log file.
We define action tags corresponds to every URL we want to access and we define a class with execute() method which will be accessed whenever we will access corresponding URL.
Results determine what gets returned to the browser after an action is executed. The string returned from the action should be the name of a result. Results are configured per-action as above, or as a “global” result, available to every action in a package. Results have optional name and type attributes. The default name value is “success”.
Struts.xml file can grow big over time and so breaking it by packages is one way of modularizing it, but Struts offers another way to modularize the struts.xml file. You could split the file into multiple xml files and import them in the following fashion.
< ?xml version ="1.0"Encoding="UTF-8"?> < !DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.0//EN" "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.0.dtd"> < struts> < includefile="my-struts1.xml"/> < includefile="my-struts2.xml"/> < /struts>
The other configuration file that we haven’t covered is the struts-default.xml. This file contains the standard configuration settings for Struts and you would not have to touch these settings for 99.99% of your projects. For this reason, we are not going into too much detail on this file. If you are interested, take a look into the at the default.properties file available in struts2-core-2.2.3.jar file.
The Struts-config.xml File
The struts-config.xml configuration file is a link between the View and Model components in the Web Client but you would not have to touch these settings for 99.99% of your projects.
The configuration file basically contains following main elements −
Sr.No | Interceptor & Description |
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1 |
struts-configThis is the root node of the configuration file. |
2 |
form-beansThis is where you map your ActionForm subclass to a name. You use this name as an alias for your ActionForm throughout the rest of the strutsconfig.xml file, and even on your JSP pages. |
3 |
global forwardsThis section maps a page on your webapp to a name. You can use this name to refer to the actual page. This avoids hardcoding URLs on your web pages. |
4 |
action-mappingsThis is where you declare form handlers and they are also known as action mappings. |
5 |
controllerThis section configures Struts internals and rarely used in practical situations. |
6 |
plug-inThis section tells Struts where to find your properties files, which contain prompts and error messages |
Following is the sample struts-config.xml file −
< ?xml version ="1.0"Encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> < !DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.0//EN" "http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_0.dtd"> < struts-config> < !-- ========== Form Bean Definitions ============ --> < form-beans> < form-beanname="login"type="test.struts.LoginForm"/> < /form-beans> < !-- ========== Global Forward Definitions ========= --> < global-forwards> < /global-forwards> < !-- ========== Action Mapping Definitions ======== --> < action-mappings> < action path="/login" type="test.struts.LoginAction"> < forwardname="valid"path="/jsp/MainMenu.jsp"/> < forwardname="invalid"path="/jsp/LoginView.jsp"/> < /action> < /action-mappings> < !-- ========== Controller Definitions ======== --> < controllercontentType="text/html;charset = UTF-8" debug="3"maxFileSize="1.618M"locale="true"nocache="true"/> < /struts-config>
For more detail on struts-config.xml file, kindly check your struts documentation.
The Struts.properties File
This configuration file provides a mechanism to change the default behavior of the framework. Actually, all the properties contained within the struts.properties configuration file can also be configured in the web.xml using the init-param, as well using the constant tag in the struts.xml configuration file. But, if you like to keep the things separate and more struts specific, then you can create this file under the folder WEB-INF/classes.
The values configured in this file will override the default values configured in default.properties which is contained in the struts2-core-x.y.z.jar distribution. There are a couple of properties that you might consider changing using the struts.properties file −
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