Struts2 Wildcard Mapping - more specific one is being handled by generic one

Question

I\'m currently playing around with my Struts2 config for wildcard testing and I\'m stuck with this one.

Answer 1

You are using slashes in action name, that incorrectly works with wildcard mapper. As I said in the linked answer, the best pattern matcher in this case is the regex pattern matcher.

See Advanced Wildcards.

    /WEB-INF/jsp/cmsPages/index.jsp



    /WEB-INF/jsp/cmsPages/templatePicker.jsp

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About docs for wildcard mapper. Lets look at the example blank application:

    
        /WEB-INF/jsp/example/HelloWorld.jsp
    

    
        /WEB-INF/jsp/example/Login.jsp
        Menu
    

    
        /WEB-INF/jsp/example/{1}.jsp
    

    

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So URLs will be matched in the order:

1. http://localhost:8080/example/HelloWorld
2. http://localhost:8080/example/Login_input
3. http://localhost:8080/example/Register

I would say that more specific mapping goes before less specific/common mapping and it wins because it's found first in the order of action configs. Everything that doesn't match the ordered configs fall into last mapping which is less specific.