ActionRequest SetAttribute issues in 2.2.1 : RC2

[sandeeppujar]

Hi,

I recently migrated to JBoss portal 2.2.1 RC2 from 2.0

And I found this problem.

When I set an attribute in my processAction request object it is not available in my doEdit request object.

eg
processAction{
actionRequest.setAttribute("X", value)
}

doEdit{
value = renderRequest.getAttribute("X")
// --> value does not appear it is null
}

This used to work in 2.0 if I am correct. Is this issue known ?
and is it related to http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPORTAL-606

Any info on this would be really helpful.

Thanks,
Sandeep

[l.forni]

Hi,

jsr 168 (portlet specification) don't allow you to pass values from ActionRequest to RenderRequest using get/setAttibute.
You have to use get/setParameter from PortletRequest (superclass of ActionRequest and RenderRequest)...

but i found i problem with it (probably a bug in jbp 2.2.1RC2). Parameter should be associated only to the current Request (see portlet specification), instead parameters in jbp are stored and maintened over all next requests.

So i used to put attribute in the portlet session (pay attenction to remove the attribute from the session if it isn't useful after read it)

Hope this help

Bye
Luca Forni

[sandeeppujar]

Hello,

I tried get/set parameter also but as you found, it did not work for me in 2.2.1 RC2.

But the set/get attribute did work in the previous versions of JBP. I found this when I migrated my code to use 2.2.1 RC2 from 2.0, if I remember correct.

So was curious to know if there was a bug in the new release.

And on using the session set/get attribute I guess now that is the only way to pass parameters from processAction to render.

Any word from the developer community ? Is what I see a expected
behaviour ?

Thanks again,
Sandeep