No action instance for path /foobar could be created

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"crash.test.dummy" <waltzco@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
15 Aug 2006 13:14:54 -0700
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I have these classes:

=========================================
samples.test.ListAction.java

public class ListAction extends DispatchAction {
   public ActionForward init(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws
Exception {...}
....
}

=========================================
samples.app.struts.PersonViewAction.java

public class PersonViewAction extends ListAction {
   public ActionForward init(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws
Exception {...
    ...
    return super.init(mapping, form, request, response);
}
....
}

=========================================
samples.app.struts.PersonViewActionForm.java

public class PersonViewActionForm extends ActionForm {
....
}

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struts-config.xml

<form-beans>
   <form-bean name="personViewActionForm"
      type="samples.app.struts.PersonActionForm"/>
</form-beans>

<action-mappings>
   <action path="/personViewAction"
      type="samples.app.struts.PersonViewAction"
      name="personViewActionForm"
      scope="request"
      input="/searchPage.jsp"
      parameter="method">
     <forward name="success" path="/resultsPage.jsp" />
</action>

=========================================

running this app with URL (i am using weblogic v8.1):

   http://localhost/myTestPage/personViewAction.do?method=init

causes this error

    ERROR~org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor~ No action instance
for path /personViewAction could be created

However, when I make PersonViewAction extend DispatchAction directly,
everything works fine.

Any reason why I cannot extend the PersonViewAction with ListAction and
still make things work just fine?

I checked the .war file and and the classes are properly located:
/WEB-INF/classes/samples/test/ListAction.class
/WEB-INF/classes/samples/app/struts/PersonViewAction.class

I'm trying to handle pagination in ListAction so pages that needs
pagination will just have their Action classes extend from ListAction
(and not repeat the logic over and over again).

any help is appreciated.
thanks.

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