Passing value between Action through Action Chaining

Question

I have a Bean like this

private String projectName;
private String projectCode;

It contains valid getter and setter.

Inside my Action class I am returning this as List and further passing on to JSP to be shown.

<select class="ibm-styled" name="selectedProjects" id="selectedProjects" 
        multiple="multiple"   tabindex="1"> 
    <s:iterator value="projectList">
        <option value="<s:property value='projectCode' />">
             <s:property value="projectName"/> 
        </option>
    </s:iterator>
</select> 

In My Action, I have this selectedProjects value and its getter setter defined.

And there I am converting selectedProjects that contains projectCode part of Bean into projectName

And I have setted into a String selectedProjectName with valid getter setter

So, Now I have two values in my action class, One set by JSP named selectedProjects and another set by me selectedProjectName.

private String selectedProjects = null;
private String selectedProjectName= null;

I tested it, I am able to print them both from action class on console. Now comes the real problem....I need to call another Action via action chaining and pass both parameters their

<action name="reports" class="com.ibm.succession.tool.actions.Reports" method="generateReport">
            <result name="tsrep">/TenuredSummary.jsp</result>
            <result name="strprep" type="chain">
                <param name="actionName">displaySkillReport</param>
                <param name="selectedProjects">${selectedProjects}</param>
                <param name="selectedProjectName">${selectedProjectName}</param>
            </result>   
        </action>

And its action like this

<action name="displaySkillReport"  class="com.ibm.succession.tool.actions.SkillTypeReportAction">
            <result name="success">/skillTypeResoucePlan.jsp</result>
        </action>

Now, In SkillTypeReportAction I have again both two values with getter and setters

private String selectedProjects = null;
    private String selectedProjectName= null;

But When I am trying to use it there.....selectedProjectName is coming blank but the other one is working fine.

Can someone shed some light on this, Let me know if need any further details.

Answer 1

If you want to pass parameters between actions than instead of type=chain you should use <result type="redirectAction">

   <action name="reports" class="com.ibm.succession.tool.actions.Reports" method="generateReport">
        <result name="tsrep">/TenuredSummary.jsp</result>
        <result name="strprep" type="redirectAction">
            <param name="actionName">displaySkillReport</param>
            <param name="selectedProjects">${selectedProjects}</param>
            <param name="selectedProjectName">${selectedProjectName}</param>
        </result>   
    </action>

for Struts 2.2

 <result type="redirectAction">

for Struts 2.0

 <result type="redirect-action"> 

Also comment if this does not work for you.