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1. Re: Friendly URLs (e.g. /request/parameter1/parameter2)
robjellinghaus Aug 25, 2006 6:37 PM (in response to tluzat)See this thread:
http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=89017
The party line seems to be that details of URL formats are properly the concern of the webapp, not Seam. So use a Tomcat plugin or Apache plugin or something to mung your URL into request parameters that work with Seam out of the box. -
2. Re: Friendly URLs (e.g. /request/parameter1/parameter2)
robjellinghaus Aug 25, 2006 7:00 PM (in response to tluzat)Actually I found another thread that indicates you can potentially do some of this sort of thing in pages.xml, but the details are tenuous. Sorry I don't have the thread link handy (and I should be working, not Seam hacking, anyway ;-).
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3. Re: Friendly URLs (e.g. /request/parameter1/parameter2)
tluzat Aug 25, 2006 8:20 PM (in response to tluzat)Thanks!
Looking through the forums and the blog example I got some ideas:
-For requests pages.xml can be used for view-ids such as article/* and gallery/*. The actions called can then use a FacesContext to get the parameters encoded in the URL through facesContext.getExternalContext().getPathInfo().
-For generated links (s:link, h:outputLink, ...?) I'll have to supply alternatives (extended versions) which support alternative ways of formatting the result, probably through a formatter class.
I haven't tested any of these and actually not written any code using Facelets and Seam yet, but does this sound reasonable? :-) I'll run some tests tomorrow. If it works it might be worthwhile to add extended tags (s:link, ...) which support different URL formatters and actions which parse different types of URLs to the Seam distribution. Please comment! -
4. Re: Friendly URLs (e.g. /request/parameter1/parameter2)
perwik Aug 26, 2006 2:21 AM (in response to tluzat)To quote myself from an other thread
Url Rewrite Filter, mod_rewrite for the Java world:
http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/
I really think you should have a good look at it. -
5. Re: Friendly URLs (e.g. /request/parameter1/parameter2)
tluzat Aug 26, 2006 6:13 AM (in response to tluzat)You're right. I'll probably resort to URL rewriting after having read
http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=85269
and trying to get it to work by myself. I don't like the quite static coupling between URLs and the way they're interpreted from a design point of view, but that's what we've got and rewriting seems to be the most practical solution here.
After having spent some more time on use cases rewriting s:links doesn't make sense anymore here and as far as I can tell now I'll probably just supply a function to convert a request and actions into request/parameter1/parameter2 format.
Now, let me start coding.