Export to CSV Text File in Struts: .findforward not loading after.

[Thomas 'Skip' Hollowell]

My Struts application is attempting to export the contents of a table to a CSV text file.
I have gotten this to work in the past but am now having trouble after the export in getting
the mapping.findfor ward to function properly. In the past, the export worked, and after it
was complete, the mapping.findfor ward would load the appropriate page, either success.jsp or
failure.jsp depending.

Am I missing an obvious step here? It never encounters an exception, it sets forwardPage
correct, and it executes the findForward, but the page is never displayed. If I take out
the export piece of the code, the findforward displays the appropriate page. I have
been backward and forward in thmy double checking against the functioning version of the
feature, and can't see what I am missing.

Thanks for any help.

Skip
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// If the session has not timed out.
if (request.isRequ estedSessionIdV alid())
{
BeanOperatorInf ormation beanOperatorInf ormation = null;
HttpSession session = request.getSess ion(true);

beanOperatorInf ormation = (BeanOperatorIn formation)sessi on.getAttribute ("beanOperatorI nformation");
if (null != beanOperatorInf ormation)
{
BeanQuery beanQuery = (BeanQuery)sess ion.getAttribut e("beanQuery" );

beanQuery.query RP(localForm.ge tRateTable1(),
localForm.getRa teTable2(), localForm.getRa teTable3(),
localForm.getRa teTable4(), localForm.getRa teTable5(),
localForm.getRa teTable12());

// Now...Let's Export the son of a gun
if (logger.isDebug Enabled())
{
logger.debug("E xporting Tables to Disk... ");
}

ServletOutputSt ream out = response.getOut putStream();
// ---------------------------------------------------------------
// Set the output data's mime type
// ---------------------------------------------------------------
response.setCon tentType("appli cation/text");
response.setHea der("Content-disposition", "filename=\"Rat eTables.csv\"") ;
out.println("Co lumn1,Column2,C olumn3,Column4" );
Iterator iter = beanQuery.getLi stRP().iterator ();
// This returns 5 elements
while (iter.hasNext() )
{
iter.next();
// the following is static garbage until the db connection is worked out later
out.println("AA AAAAAAAAAAAAA" + "," + "BBBBBBBBBB BBB" + "," + "CCCCCCCCCC C" + "," + "DDDDDDDDDDDDD" );
}
out.flush();
// Done Exporting
forwardPage = "success";
}
else
{
forwardPage = "disconnect ed";
}
}
else
{
forwardPage = "sessiontimeout ";
}
}
catch (com.att.apt.Ex ceptionApt except)
{
ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors();
Logger logger = Logger.getLogge r(ActionExportR T.class);

if (!except.isEmpt y())
{
ActionError actionError = null;
Iterator errorIterator = except.getListA ctionErrors().i terator();

while (errorIterator. hasNext())
{
errors.add("loa derror", (ActionError)er rorIterator.nex t());
}
}
else
{
describeExcepti on(errors, except);
}

saveErrors(requ est, errors);

logger.error("A PT Exception: " + except);
}
catch (java.lang.Exce ption except)
{
ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors();
Logger logger = Logger.getLogge r(ActionExportR T.class);

describeExcepti on(errors, except);
saveErrors(requ est, errors);

logger.error("E xception: " + except);
}
return mapping.findFor ward(forwardPag e);
}