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| <faqs title="Action FAQs"> |
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| <faq> |
| <question> |
| What is an Action? |
| </question> |
| <answer> |
| <p> |
| An Action is a sitemap component that manipulates runtime parameters based on request and application state. An Action's result is available in the sitemap as map of name/value pairs. Detailed information on actions may be found in <link href="../userdocs/concepts/actions.html">Creating and Using Actions</link>. |
| </p> |
| </answer> |
| </faq> |
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| <faq> |
| <question>Why does Cocoon return an error when I add an action to a pipeline?</question> |
| <answer> |
| <p>The pipeline was working fine before the action was added. After |
| the change, Cocoon seems unable to find the file specified in the |
| variable that is returned by the matcher.</p> |
| |
| <source><![CDATA[ |
| <map:match pattern="*"> |
| <map:act type="validate-session"> |
| <map:generate type="serverpages" src="{../1}.xsp"/> |
| </map:act> |
| <map:serialize/> |
| </map:match> |
| ]]></source> |
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| <p>Please note in the above example the "<em><code>../1</code></em>".</p> |
| <p>Map objects returned from matchers and actions are organised |
| <em>hierarchically</em>. Therefore, old map objects are not replaced by new ones, |
| such as the map objects returned by the validate-session action above. |
| Because older map objects are still accessible through a path expression, new ones are |
| accessed differently. Here "<code>../1</code>" references key ( or "variable") "1" |
| in the next to last Map. </p> |
| </answer> |
| </faq> |
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| </faqs> |
