Html:link to c:url

Question

<html:link action="/DispatchAddAction.do?method=Delete">
<fmt:message var="btnDelete" key="btn.delete" bundle="${appbundle}"/>
<c:out value="${btnDelete}"/>
</html:link>
this is working fine.
Trying now to use JSTL c:url
<c:url value="/DispatchAddAction.do" var="url">
<c:param name="method" value="Delete"/>
<fmt:message var="btnDelete" key="btn.delete" bundle="${appbundle}"/>
<c:out value="${btnDelete}"/>
</c:url>
I don't see the link Delete. What am I missing here?
Thanks.

Answer 1

The tags do slightly different things.
The html:link tag renders an anchor tag for a link on an HTML page.
The c:url tag just produces a url. It doesn't produce HTML. The struts html:rewrite tag would be closer to the function of c:url
As such you have to generate the link yourself:
// set up values
<fmt:message var="btnDelete" key="btn.delete" bundle="${appbundle}"/>
<c:url value="/DispatchAddAction.do" var="url">
  <c:param name="method" value="Delete"/>
</c:url>
// then render the tag like this:
<a href="<c:out value="${url}"/>"><c:out value="${btnDelete}"/></a>
//if you have a JSP2.0 container you could do it just like this:
<a href="${url}"><fmt:message key="btn.delete" bundle="${appbundle}"/></a>Cheers,
evnafets