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Interceptor not getting called in Struts

My interceptor (validation) is not getting called before or after the action. Any ideas how to get it work ?
Note : Everytime the default interceptor is being called.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.0//EN"
"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.0.dtd">
<struts>
<package name="default" namespace="/" extends="struts-default,json-default">
<result-types>
<result-type name="tiles" class="org.apache.struts2.views.tiles.TilesResult" />
<result-type name="json" class="org.apache.struts2.json.JSONResult" />
</result-types>
<interceptors>
<interceptor name="validation" class="ValidatorBaseAction"/>
<interceptor-stack name="default">
<interceptor-ref name="logger"/>
</interceptor-stack>
<interceptor-stack name="validationStack">
<interceptor-ref name="validation"/>
<interceptor-ref name="default"/>
</interceptor-stack>
</interceptors>
<default-interceptor-ref name="default" />
<action
name="viewRequest"
class="ViewAction"
method="execute">
<interceptor-ref name="validationStack" />
<result name="input" type="redirectAction">explore</result>
<result name="success" type="redirect">/showRequest.do?${explorerParameters}</result>
</action>
</package>
</struts>

Main problem:
class both for Actions and Interceptors must specify the FQCN, not only the name. Then change it to something like:
<interceptor name="validation" class="com.foo.bar.ValidatorBaseAction"/>
and also change your action to
<action name="viewRequest" class="com.foo.bar.ViewAction" method="execute">
Side problems:
Don't call it ValidatorBaseAction if it is an Interceptor, call it ValidatorBaseInterceptor. And ensure there is nothing of an Action inside it;
Don't use an Interceptor Stack with only one Interceptor, I'm pretty sure it would be useless in 99% of the cases. If you are not sure, just use the defaultStack, adding your interceptor to it.
Polishing:
json-default already extends struts-default, so this
<package ... extends="struts-default,json-default"
is equivalent to this
<package ... extends="json-default"
that is cleaner;
Since you extends json-default, you don't need to redefine the JSON result, then remove
<result-type name="json" class="org.apache.struts2.json.JSONResult" />
that is useless.
Try always to prefer redirectAction result when redirecting to an Action, and use redirect result only when redirecting to other resources or external URLs

After logout back/reload issue in Struts 2

I have a login page (Index.jsp) , here user put user id and password. On submit LoginAuthentification.java(action class) called and authenticate the user, but according to the result in the action class it returns the JSP.
<action name="login" class="com.struts2.LoginAuthentication"
method="execute">
<interceptor-ref name="clear-cache" />
<result name="manager">/ManagerView.jsp</result>
<result name="SSE" type="redirectAction">
<param name="actionName">viewPlan</param>
<param name="userID">${userID}</param>
</result>
<result name="input">/Index.jsp</result>
<result name="error">/error.jsp</result>
</action>
In this case, it is returning ManagerView.jsp. Now in this JSP, I added a hyperlink for logout, and it is doing below
<action name="logout" class="com.struts2.LoginAuthentication"
method="logout">
<interceptor-ref name="clear-cache" />
<result name="success">/Index.jsp</result>
<result name="error">/error.jsp</result>
</action>
Code from Action class:
public String logout() {
//if (session instanceof org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.SessionMap) {
session.clear();
//session.re
System.out.println("test");
session.remove("loggedInUser");
((org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.SessionMap) session).invalidate();
//}
return "success";
}
after logout it is redirected to Index.jsp, now I clicked on back button
It display "confirm form resubmission" message in chrome and webpage expired in IE. But when I reload the page it login the old user automatically.
I have added
<%
response.setHeader("Cache-control", "no-cache, no-store");
response.setHeader("Expires", "0");
response.setHeader("Vary", "*");
%>
in the JSP as well as in interceptor.
I am trying to block auto login on reload.

The problem is that after logout you are not actually redirect to a new action. The cause of such behavior when you pressed the back button you got a conformation dialog in the browser. The back button is not used to call an action, unless it's not invoked via triggering it using Ajax. You should follow post-redirect-get pattern when doing request for logout.
<action name="logout" class="com.struts2.LoginAuthentication" method="logout">
<interceptor-ref name="clear-cache" />
<result name="success" type="redirect">/</result>
<result name="error">/error.jsp</result>
</action>

I resolved the issue by redirecting it to another action. and wrote another interceptor to validate if it is having user id in the session or not.
<default-interceptor-ref name="loginStack"></default-interceptor-ref>
<action name="login" class="com.struts2.LoginAuthentication"
method="execute">
<interceptor-ref name="defaultStack"/>
<result name="manager" type="redirectAction">
<param name="actionName">home</param>
</result>
</action>
<action name="home" class="com.struts2.LoginAuthentication"
method="home">
<result name="success">/ManagerView.jsp</result>
<result name="error">/error.jsp</result>
</action>

How to validate specific action using XML configuration in Struts 2

I want to validate specific method only in action class.
Action method is this.
public String add() throws Exception {
// aflag = true;
org.setAoName(aoName);
orgBo.addOrg(org);
orglist = orgBo.searchOrg(organisationSearch);
setAoName("");
setAflag("viewaddorgs");
return "add";
}
Problem is currently I have many action methods in action class. When I call those methods it validate this method. Please help me to validate only this method by XML.
This is my OraganisationAction-validation.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE validators PUBLIC
"-//Apache Struts//XWork Validator 1.0.3//EN"
"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/xwork-validator-1.0.3.dtd">
<validators>
<field name="aoName">
<field-validator type="requiredstring">
<message>
The name is required!
</message>
</field-validator>
<field-validator type="requiredfield">
<message>
The name is required!
</message>
</field-validator>
</field>
</validators>
This is my JSP :
<s:form id="post" action="addorgs" validate="true" >
<s:textfield name="aoName" label="Add Organisations" />
</s:form>
struts xml :
<package name="default" extends="struts-default">
<result-types>
<result-type name="tiles"
class="org.apache.struts2.views.tiles.TilesResult" />
</result-types>
<action name="*security" class="com.ast.action.admin.SecurityAction"
method="{1}">
<result name="second" type="tiles">secondTemplate</result>
<result name="pass" type="tiles">orgTemplate</result>
</action>
<action name="*orgs" class="com.ast.action.admin.OraganisationAction"
method="{1}">
<result name="viewadd" type="tiles">orgAddTemplate</result>
<result name="input" type="tiles">orgAddTemplate</result>
<result name="add" type="tiles">orgAddTemplate</result>
<result name="addtbl" type="tiles">orgAddTemplate</result>
<result name="search" type="tiles">orgTemplate</result>
<result name="delete" type="tiles">orgTemplate</result>
<result name="viewedit" type="tiles">orgEditTemplate</result>
<result name="edit" type="tiles">orgEditTemplate</result>
<result name="edittbl" type="tiles">orgEditTemplate</result>
<result name="orgmenu" type="tiles">orgTemplate</result>
<result name="view" type="tiles">orgViewTemplate</result>
</action>
it works with annotations but with XML no success yet.

To exclude some methods from validation you can override parameters of the validation interceptor. For example in interceptor stack you can write
<interceptor-ref name="validation">
<param name="excludeMethods">input,back,cancel,browse,yourmethod</param>
</interceptor-ref>
in the action configuration you can use above code and
<interceptor-ref name="defaultStack">
<param name="validation.excludeMethods">input,back,cancel,browse,yourmethod</param>
</interceptor-ref>
Note yourmethod is a method name.
You can specify a validation.xml for only one action by a postfix of action name in this file. For example AcrionClass-add-validation.xml will work only for the action name add in the action config. Note here add is an action name, not a method name.
Often, the name attribute matches the method name, but they may also differ.

I had similar problems but then these are couple of things that i rectified :
1) DOCTYPE in the yourAction-yourAlias-validation.xml should be
<!DOCTYPE validators PUBLIC "-//Apache Struts//XWork Validator 1.0.3//EN"
"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/xwork-validator-1.0.3.dtd">
2)Created a custom interceptor to exclude the methods that need not be validated.Below is a sample for my candidate registration where i had to skip validation for district method which fetched districts for a state.
<interceptor-stack name="clientValidation">
<interceptor-ref name="basicStack"/>
<interceptor-ref name="validation">
<param name="excludeMethods">input,district</param>
</interceptor-ref>
<interceptor-ref name="workflow"/>
</interceptor-stack>
<package name="registration" namespace="/candidate" extends="struts-default">
<action name="candidateRegistration" class="com.app.action.CandidateAction">
<interceptor-ref name="clientValidation"/>
<result name="input">/jsps/student/studentregistration.jsp</result>
<result name="failure1">/jsps/student/registrationfailure.jsp</result>
<result name="cancelRegistration">/jsps/login.jsp</result>
<result name="district">/jsps/includes/dropdown_districts_regoffice.jsp</result>
</action>
</package>

Use an action alias: map different methods of an Action to different action aliases in struts.xml, and instead of the single yourAction-validation.xml file, add a yourAction-yourAlias-validation.xml for the validators you want to perform for that method only.
Read more here.
EDIT
No its not validation anything now.
<validators>
<field name="aoName">
<field-validator type="required">
<message>You cannot leave the aoName address field empty.</message>
</field-validator>
</field>
</validators>
name is OraganisationAction-add-validation.xml and put it with action class package. Is there anything to enable validation in struts.xml ?
If you have a correctly configured (for example the default) Interceptor Stack, validation is already enabled. If you are using a file named OraganisationAction-add-validation.xml, that means that:
your action CLASS must be named OraganisationAction.java;
your action mapping in struts.xml must be the following:
<action name="add" class="your.package.OraganisationAction" method="add">
<result>yourResult.jsp</result>
</action>
Look for typos, check your Interceptor Stack, and it will work automatically.

Struts 2 get all namespaces and actions from xml

I'm new to Struts 2 overall and would like to know, if there is a way to get a list of all the namespaces and actions for each namespace that is defined in the xml?
I have a package and I am including configurations for each namespace:
<include file="struts_someNamespace1.xml" />
<include file="struts_someNamespace2.xml" />
<include file="struts_someNamespace3.xml" />
Each of those XML files is defined similar to this (this has less code):
<package name="somePackage" namespace="/someNamespace1" extends="default">
<action name="firstAction" class="com.someAction">
<interceptor-ref name="defaultStack"/>
<interceptor-ref name="json"> </interceptor-ref>
<result type="json"> </result>
</action>
<action name="secondAction" class="com.otherAction">
<interceptor-ref name="defaultStack"/>
<interceptor-ref name="json"> </interceptor-ref>
<result type="json"> </result>
</action>
</package>
Is there a way using some utility class where I can get a list or of each namespace and its actions?
Example Results (in JSON)
{
"someNamespace1": ["firstAction","secondAction"},
"someNamespace2": ["about","home"]
}

Take a look on the Config Browser plugin, it allows browse (almost) all configuration options.
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=struts.git;a=blob;f=plugins/config-browser/src/main/java/org/apache/struts2/config_browser/ConfigurationHelper.java;h=536435f84a7bd818c3051b92fdc94c06cdaa40f6;hb=refs/heads/develop

Struts 2 Action Type Conversion Of List Using Annotations

I am trying to create a custom type converter to convert a Collection of objects back and forth from a String. I have a text area in my form and want to create a new object in the Collection for every line break in the text area on my save. When displaying the information, I want to loop through the objects in the Collection and turn it into a String with line breaks for my text area. So far, I am unable to even get my converter to fire or receive any kind of errors based on the annotations that I have. Below is my class definition:
#Conversion()
public class FormsEdit extends JWebCrud{
Inside this class I have a List:
private List<Formfield> formFields;
Inside the Formnfield class I have a Set:
private Set<Formfieldopts> formfieldoptses = new HashSet<Formfieldopts>(0);
#TypeConversion(converter = "com.webexchange.actions.tpa.setup.forms.FormFieldOptsConverter")
public void setFormfieldoptses(Set<Formfieldopts> formfieldoptses) {
this.formfieldoptses = formfieldoptses;
}
Can someone please direct me on how to properly setup these annotations to get the Converter to fire?
Struts 2 Version: 2.2.1
Struts Interceptor Stack:
<interceptor-stack name="stackWithSecurity">
<interceptor-ref name="closeHibernateSession" />
<!--catches exceptions pre or post action class-->
<interceptor-ref name="exceptionInterceptor" />
<interceptor-ref name="security">
<param name="excludeMethods">executeNoSecurity,executeNoSecurityOrValidation</param>
</interceptor-ref>
<interceptor-ref name="alias" />
<interceptor-ref name="servletConfig" />
<!-- Puts HTTPResponse and HTTPRequest objects on the action -->
<interceptor-ref name="openHibernateSession" />
<!-- Opens a db connection and creates a hibernate session -->
<interceptor-ref name="prepare" />
<interceptor-ref name="checkbox" /> <!-- Sets unchecked values into the action with a value of 'false' -->
<interceptor-ref name="params" /><!-- Sets the parameters from the HTTP request to the action -->
<interceptor-ref name="staticParams" />
<interceptor-ref name="conversionError" />
<!-- adds a field error when the value can't be converted to the right type -->
<interceptor-ref name="chain">
<!-- these properties should not be copied from one action to another on a chain -->
<param name="excludes">dao</param>
</interceptor-ref>
<interceptor-ref name="validation">
<param name="excludeMethods">
input,back,cancel,browse,delete,executeNoValidation,executeNoSecurityOrValidation,edit
</param>
<param name="validateAnnotatedMethodOnly">true</param>
</interceptor-ref>
<interceptor-ref name="workflow">
<param name="excludeMethods">
input,back,cancel,browse,delete,executeNoValidation,executeNoSecurityOrValidation,edit
</param>
</interceptor-ref>
</interceptor-stack>
Action Mapping:
<action name="formsSave"
class="com.webexchange.actions.tpa.setup.forms.FormsEdit"
method="save">
<result name="success">/jsp/centers/tpa/setup/forms/EditForms.jsp
</result>
<result name="input">/jsp/centers/tpa/setup/forms/EditForms.jsp
</result>
</action>

Thanks Dave for your help. My s:textarea was not pointing at the Collection I was trying to convert. After I did that the converter started to fire. What a total FAIL on my part, sorry.