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by Russell Neufeld-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Thanks Nate and Tim.  Worked like a charm.

    Russ

Sarr, Nathan wrote:

> Hi Russ,
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>    You may want to try creating a global result in your struts.xml:
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> <global-results>
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> <result name="change-password">/pages/user/login/force_change_password.jsp</result>
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> </global-results>
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> Then in your interceptor return the result name "change-password"
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> That is how we accomplished something similar to your pblem.
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> Hope this helps.
> -Nate
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> From: Russell Neufeld [mailto:russ.neufeld@...]
> Sent: Mon 6/29/2009 5:19 PM
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> Subject: Need help writing an interceptor to force a user to change their password
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> Hi all,
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>     I'm trying to implement functionality which will force a user to a change-password page if a certain bit is set on their user account.  That is, no matter what action they are attempting to take, I'd like to intercept the request and show them a change-password page.  I've written a few struts2 interceptors before, but this one has me stumped.  I can easily get the user principal object and see whether or not I need to insert the change-password page, but I'm not sure what to do next.  I was thinking about trying to change the action object to one which would simply return a string pointing to the change-password jsp, but I don't know how to replace the action object on the invocation object (and that doesn't seem like a good idea).  I'd prefer not to solve this with a redirect because I'd like to use some of the context of current request in the rendering of the change-password page.
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>     Any ideas?  Thanks,
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>         Russ
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