Invalid URL constructed in Ajax requests

[alex.alvarez]

Hi All,

i have been trying to migrate a JSF Portlet to use RichFaces. I have used as a basis the seamBookingPortlet.war and have removed everything that is Seam specific.

The main problem that i am having is that when i set a component to use ajax
(i.e. rich:tabPanel switchType="ajax" ), the URLs are constructed wrongly... For example the context SmartPortlet is written twice

/SmartPortlet/SmartPortlet/faces/WEB-INF/jsf/globalAdmin.xhtml

or they skip the /portal/

http://localhost:8080/SmartPortlet/css/screen.css

instead of

http://localhost:8080/portal/SmartPortlet/css/screen.css

Any ideas?

Alex

[wesleyhales]

Take a look at this example war:
http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/portletbridge/trunk/examples/richfaces/componentdemo/
It has a working tabPanel.

Or you can follow the instructions on the wiki:
http://labs.jboss.com/auth/wiki/JBossPortletBridge

[alex.alvarez]

Hi Wesley,

thanks for the reply. Out firewall blocks access to repositories, so i was unable to build the application, still i replaced the xml configuration files and now the portlet gets the RichFaces resources (framework.pack.js and ui.pack.js), so things are a bit better.

The ajax functionality didn't improve though.

Regards,
Alex

[wesleyhales]

In that case, make sure you read the wiki for configuration:
http://labs.jboss.com/wiki/JBossPortletBridge

[alex.alvarez]

Still no success, i'm looking at the failed request with firebug and i get:

Params:
=====
javax.portlet.faces.DirectLink true
org.jboss.portletbridge.VIEWID /WEB-INF/jsf/globalAdmin.xhtml


Response
======
HTTP Status 404 -
---------------------
type Status report

message

description
The requested resource () is not available.
JBossWeb/2.0.1.GA


Post
===
(empty)


is there wany way to follow or troubleshoot the requests across the environments?

Regards,
Alex

[alex.alvarez]

I finally discovered what is happening, I managed to build the JSF portlet using your maven archetype...

Comparing the projects, i discovered that i had the .xhtml files under the \WEB-INF\ directory.

regards,
Alex

[bjoernb]

hey, i am still have the same problem as you. i see the portlet but when i make an ajax request i get the error:

HTTP Status 404 - The requested resource () is not available

but i have no clue how to solve this... or how you solved it

my xmls are a follows:

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">

<display-name>Richfaces Example</display-name>

<context-param>
<param-name>org.ajax4jsf.VIEW_HANDLERS</param-name>
<param-value>
org.jboss.portletbridge.application.FaceletPortletViewHandler
</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.portlet.faces.renderPolicy</param-name>
<param-value>ALWAYS_DELEGATE</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>
javax.portlet.faces.preserveActionParams
</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>org.ajax4jsf.RESOURCE_URI_PREFIX</param-name>
<param-value></param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>org.richfaces.LoadStyleStrategy</param-name>
<param-value>NONE</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>org.richfaces.LoadScriptStrategy</param-name>
<param-value>NONE</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>org.ajax4jsf.COMPRESS_SCRIPT</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</context-param>


<!-- JSF -->

<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name>
<param-value>.jsf</param-value>
</context-param>

<context-param>
<param-name>org.richfaces.SKIN</param-name>
<param-value>blueSky</param-value>
</context-param>

<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.CONFIG_FILES</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/faces-config.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

<context-param>
<param-name>facelets.DEVELOPMENT</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>

<filter>
<display-name>Ajax4jsf Filter</display-name>
<filter-name>ajax4jsf</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.ajax4jsf.Filter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>forceparser</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>

<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>ajax4jsf</filter-name>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>

<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>ajax4jsf</filter-name>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/faces/rfRes/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>

<servlet>
<servlet-name>FacesServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>FacesServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<session-config>
<session-timeout>10</session-timeout>
</session-config>

<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>/faces/index.jsf</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

faces-config.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<faces-config xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_1_2.xsd"
version="1.2">
 <application>
 <view-handler>
 org.jboss.portletbridge.application.PortletViewHandler
 </view-handler>
 <state-manager>
 org.jboss.portletbridge.application.PortalStateManager
 </state-manager>

 </application>
 <factory>
 <faces-context-factory>
 org.jboss.portletbridge.context.FacesContextFactoryImpl
 </faces-context-factory>
 </factory>

 <managed-bean>
 <description>Restaurant Bean</description>
 <managed-bean-name>Restaurant</managed-bean-name>
 <managed-bean-class>my.data.Restaurant</managed-bean-class>
 <managed-bean-scope>session</managed-bean-scope>
 </managed-bean>
</faces-config>

jboss-portlet.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE portlet-app PUBLIC
 "-//JBoss Portal//DTD JBoss Portlet 2.6//EN"
 "http://www.jboss.org/portal/dtd/jboss-portlet_2_6.dtd"><portlet-app>
 <portlet>
 <portlet-name>Ajax</portlet-name>
 <header-content>
 <script src="/faces/rfRes//org/ajax4jsf/framework.pack.js" type="text/javascript" ></script>
 <script src="/faces/rfRes//org/richfaces/ui.pack.js" type="text/javascript" ></script>
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/faces/rfRes//org/richfaces/skin.xcss" />
 </header-content>
 </portlet>
</portlet-app>

portlet.xml

<portlet>
<portlet-name>Ajax</portlet-name>
<portlet-class>
javax.portlet.faces.GenericFacesPortlet
</portlet-class>

<init-param>
<name>javax.portlet.faces.defaultViewId.view</name>
<value>/WEB-INF/jsp/ajax/ajax.jsf</value>
</init-param>

<init-param>
<name>javax.portlet.faces.preserveActionParams</name>
<value>true</value>
</init-param>
<expiration-cache>-0</expiration-cache>
<portlet-info>
<title>RichFaces Example Portlet</title>
</portlet-info>
<supports>
<mime-type>text/html</mime-type>
<portlet-mode>VIEW</portlet-mode>
</supports>
</portlet>

and my jsf-file ajax.jsf:

<f:view xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:a4j="https://ajax4jsf.dev.java.net/ajax">
<a4j:portlet>

<h:outputText value="RichFaces components in the portal environment" />

<h:form>
<h:panelGrid columns="1" border="1">
<h:inputText value="#{Restaurant.username}">
<a4j:support event="onkeyup" reRender="text" />
</h:inputText>
<h:outputText id="text" value="#{Restaurant.username}" />


<a4j:commandButton action="#{Restaurant.alteration}" value="Click" reRender="counter" >
</a4j:commandButton>

<a4j:commandLink value="Portlet Instances" action="#{Restaurant.alteration}" reRender="counter"/>
<h:outputText id="counter" value="Click count: #{Restaurant.counter}" />
</h:panelGrid>
</h:form>

</a4j:portlet>
</f:view>

would appreciate your support !!
thx !!

[bjoernb]

meanwhile i frigured out that i am also missing the /portal/ infront of my project !
how can i repair this missing url-string part ?
can anyone help me thereby ?

[alex.alvarez]

What i discovered is that you can not have JSPs or XHTML files under /WEB-INF/

For instance, you would have to move your file from

/WEB-INF/jsp/ajax/ajax.jsf

to

/jsp/ajax/ajax.jsf

I don't know if they can fix the bridge to solve this problem.

[bjoernb]

yeahhhh thanx !!!!
that worked :)

really thanks a lot alex.alvarez :)