Struts 2 on GAE – Error: result ‘null’ not found
Problem
Developing Struts2 on Google App Engine, in following environment.
- Struts 2.3.1.2
- JDK 1.6
- Eclipse 3.7 + Google Plugin for Eclipse
- Google App Engine Java SDK 1.6.3.1
Just started a simple Struts2 hello world example, when access the action class, hit error “Error: result ‘null’ not found”, in both local development and real production GAE environment.
Solution
OGNL is performing some security checking, which is not support in GAE. To make Struts 2 works on GAE environment, you need to create a listener in web.xml
and set the OGNL security manager to null.
OgnlRuntime.setSecurityManager(null);
Full example.
package com.mkyong.listener;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextListener;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionAttributeListener;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingEvent;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionEvent;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionListener;
import ognl.OgnlRuntime;
public class Struts2ListenerOnGAE implements ServletContextListener,
HttpSessionListener, HttpSessionAttributeListener {
public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce) {
OgnlRuntime.setSecurityManager(null);
}
@Override
public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
@Override
public void sessionCreated(HttpSessionEvent arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
@Override
public void sessionDestroyed(HttpSessionEvent arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
@Override
public void attributeAdded(HttpSessionBindingEvent arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
@Override
public void attributeRemoved(HttpSessionBindingEvent arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
@Override
public void attributeReplaced(HttpSessionBindingEvent arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
}
File : web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" version="2.5">
<filter>
<filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
<filter-class>
org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ng.filter.StrutsPrepareAndExecuteFilter
</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<listener>
<listener-class>com.mkyong.listener.Struts2ListenerOnGAE</listener-class>
</listener>
</web-app>
Was stuck badly on this one. Thank a ton.