I need to do the following:
- User logs in.
- Redirected to welcome screen.
- Looks at the welcome screen while lots of records are loaded.
- Redirected to the working screen.
I am looking for a way to do in Action class something like this:
public class LinkAction extends ActionSupport implements SessionAware {
@Autowired
private ServiceDelegate myService;
public String welcome()
{
new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
myService.getLoadsOfData();
//redirect to the next action
}
}.run();
// this is where the user
// goes to look at the welcome screen
return "welcome";
}
}
May be it's a wrong approach, please tell if so, I am new at Struts.
Thank you for the AJAX idea.
However, the answer I was looking for was in fact Struts interceptor "execAndWait". I decided to use it over AJAX because I am dealing with existing application and all the Struts plumbing is in place. This is the Struts guide on this
The right way is the one already suggested by AleksandrM in comments: open the page, show an indicator while you call an ajax action (let's say with jQuery, for convenience), then render the result and remove the indicator. It's easier than you think:
Your AJAX action can either return JSON data, a JSP snippet or a Stream of binary data. Choose the way you prefer. For example, if you map SUCCESS of AjaxAction to a JSP snippet, your JSP snippet will be:
ajaxSnippet.jsp
Then in your main.jsp, show the indicator in the div you will overwrite with the AJAX call's result:
main.jsp