I'm currently using Struts2 (2.3.7) and i'm facing with the following issue.
When i specify a namespace /x in the form tag on my jsp:
<%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags"%>
<s:form namespace="/x">
<s:submit action="z" />
</s:form>
the html form tag that is generated contains y that is different from declared x:
<form action="/contextRoot/y/z.action" method="post">
where y is the namespace of the previous request, so it seems that attribute namespace has no effect. I know that tags are "namespace aware" Is prefix needed for Struts2 namespace in forms and links? but i want to specify a different one.
tl;dr
Put some action attribute to your <s:form> tag as well.
Explanation:
If there is no action attribute in the <s:form> tag then the form action url defaults to current request url. i.e. Action and namespace come from current request. Side effect of this is that namespace attribute on <s:form> tag is simply ignored.
Example:
Current request: app/some_namespace/some_action
And the form:
<s:form namespace="/x">
<s:submit action="z" />
</s:form>
Will produce something like that for the form url:
app/some_namespace/some_action
and for the submit button:
app/some_namespace/z