Struts里的Html:Cancel标签是在Form中经常运用的一个标签，主要功能就是cancel当前Form，一般写法如下：
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<html:cancel
<bean:message key="createuser.cancelbutton"/
</html:cancel
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这个标签将生成如下的HTML代码：
<input type="submit" name="org.apache.struts.taglib.html.CANCEL" value="返回" onclick="bCancel=true;"
bCancel=true是一段javascript，bCancel是在使用Struts的Validator时，Struts自动为我们加的一段Javascript代码里的一个变量
这段Javascript简略摘要如下：
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<script type="text/javascript" language="Javascript1.1"
<!-- Begin
var bCancel = false;
function validateCreateUserForm(form) {
if (bCancel)
return true;
else
return validateMaxLength(form) && validateRequired(form) && validateMinLength(form);
}
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由上可以看到，这个bCancel=true时，Javascript将自动将表单提交（return true），也就是说，假如我们在后台Action的代码里没有对这个Cancel动作写特定代码的话，这个Cancel标签产生的效果和submit按钮产生的动作完全一致！！（因为这个按钮的type也等于submit）这一点需要非常的注重！所以，一般来说，我们在Action类的execute方法里面会加上如下的一段代码来处理这个Cancel动作：
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// Was this transaction cancelled?
if (isCancelled(request)) {
return (mapping.findForward("createusersUCcess"));
}
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有了以上的代码，Cancel动作就有了相应的处理代码，转到相关的页面了。本来事情已经解决，但本着对Struts源码研究的精神，我们还需要对以上代码研究一下
OK，让我们来看一下isCancelled这个方法在什么地方被定义了，内容是什么？
首先发现，这个方法被定义在Action类里面，代码如下：
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/**
* <pReturns <codetrue</code if the current form's cancel button was
* pressed. This method will check if the <codeGlobals.CANCEL_KEY</code
* request attribute has been set, which normally occurs if the cancel
* button generated by <strongCancelTag</strong was pressed by the user
* in the current request. If <codetrue</code, validation performed
* by an <strongActionForm</strong's <codevalidate()</code method
* will have been skipped by the controller servlet.</p
*
* @param request The servlet request we are processing
* @see org.apache.struts.taglib.html.CancelTag
*/
protected boolean isCancelled(HttpServletRequest request) {
return (request.getAttribute(Globals.CANCEL_KEY) != null);
}
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原来是在request对象中查找Globals.CANCEL_KEY这个key值是否绑定了一个对象，假如是，那么就代表按下Cancel按钮后，
Struts会在request对象中绑定一个对象，并以这个key值来命名那Struts是在什么地方绑定了这个对象呢？很自然的，让我们从头找起从ActionServlet的process方法开始找起，历经多次方法调用，终于找到了根源，原来是在RequestProcessor.java中，代码如下：
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/**
* <pProcess an <codeHttpServletRequest</code and create the
* corresponding <codeHttpServletResponse</code.</p
*
* @param request The servlet request we are processing
* @param response The servlet response we are creating
*
* @exception IOException if an input/output error occurs
* @exception ServletException if a processing exception occurs
*/
public void process(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException, ServletException {
//省略代码若干
// Process any ActionForm bean related to this request
ActionForm form = processActionForm(request, response, mapping);
//答案就在这个processPopulate方法中
processPopulate(request, response, form, mapping);
if (!processValidate(request, response, form, mapping)) {
return;
}
/**
* Populate the properties of the specified ActionForm instance from
* the request parameters included with this request. In addition,
* request attribute <codeGlobals.CANCEL_KEY</code will be set if
* the request was submitted with a button created by
* <codeCancelTag</code.
*
* @param request The servlet request we are processing
* @param response The servlet response we are creating
* @param form The ActionForm instance we are populating
* @param mapping The ActionMapping we are using
*
* @exception ServletException if thrown by RequestUtils.populate()
*/
protected void processPopulate(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response,
ActionForm form,
ActionMapping mapping)
throws ServletException {
if (form == null) {
return;
}
// Populate the bean properties of this ActionForm instance
if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
log.debug(" Populating bean properties from this request");
}
form.setServlet(this.servlet);
form.reset(mapping, request);
if (mapping.getMultipartClass() != null) {
request.setAttribute(Globals.MULTIPART_KEY,
mapping.getMultipartClass());
}
RequestUtils.populate(form, mapping.getPrefix(), mapping.getSuffix(),
request);
// Set the cancellation request attribute if appropriate
if ((request.getParameter(Constants.CANCEL_PROPERTY) != null)
(request.getParameter(Constants.CANCEL_PROPERTY_X) != null)) {
request.setAttribute(Globals.CANCEL_KEY, Boolean.TRUE);
}
}
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OK，看最后几行代码，Struts从request中取得Constants.CANCEL_PROPERTY这个参数，假如这个参数不为空，那么他就将TRUE这个对象以Globals.CANCEL_KEY为key值，放到了request对象中至于这个Constants.CANCEL_PROPERTY这个值是什么，现在都可以猜到了，显然就是html:Cancel这个标签生成的HTML代码中，Cancel这个按钮的名称嘛！查了一下，果然是：
<input type="submit" name="org.apache.struts.taglib.html.CANCEL" value="返回" onclick="bCancel=true;"
而Constants.CANCEL_PROPERTY这个值就是org.apache.struts.taglib.html.CANCEL
