Redirecting into view that is inside a directory

[thejavafreak]

Dear all,

I have a problem where I haven't been able to figure out how to redirect a view that is inside a directory

This is how /index.jsp looks like:

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<c:redirect url="home.seam" />

And this is my navigation rule:

<navigation-rule>
 <navigation-case>
 <from-outcome>home</from-outcome>
 <to-view-id>/department/home.xhtml</to-view-id>
 <redirect />
 </navigation-case>
 </navigation-rule>

From the webcontext root directory, the view is located under /department directory. I expect to get the view /department/home.xhtml displayed, but it didn't work. Have I missed on something here?

Thanks in advance

[pbrewer_uk]

If I understand correctly, then I should explain how navigation rules are supposed to work. This is how your current setup will work: Your /index.jsp will redirect to /home.seam which, in turn will map to a file in your war called /home.xhtml which will then be rendered on the front-end. (Note no navigation rule is involved here.)

The navigation rules are supposed to be used as action outcomes: looking at the seam booking example, there is a login action method that returns an outcome of either "login" or "main" these outcomes are then mapped, in the faces-config.xml file (see below), to views.

Seam also introduces the concept of stateful navigation through the use of Pageflows. Have a look at the seam reference for more info on this.

LoginAction.java extract...

 public String login()
 {
 List<User> results = em.createQuery("select u from User u where u.username=:username and u.password=:password")
 .setParameter("username", user.getUsername())
 .setParameter("password", user.getPassword())
 .getResultList();

 if ( results.size()==0 )
 {
 FacesMessages.instance().add("Invalid login");
 return "login";
 }
 else
 {
 user = results.get(0);
 Contexts.getSessionContext().set("loggedIn", true);
 FacesMessages.instance().add("Welcome, #{user.name}");
 return "main";
 }

 }

faces-config.xml extract...

 <navigation-rule>

 <navigation-case>
 <from-outcome>login</from-outcome>
 <to-view-id>/home.xhtml</to-view-id>
 <redirect />
 </navigation-case>

 <navigation-case>
 <from-outcome>register</from-outcome>
 <to-view-id>/register.xhtml</to-view-id>
 <redirect />
 </navigation-case>

 <navigation-case>
 <from-outcome>password</from-outcome>
 <to-view-id>/password.xhtml</to-view-id>
 <redirect />
 </navigation-case>

 <navigation-case>
 <from-outcome>main</from-outcome>
 <to-view-id>/main.xhtml</to-view-id>
 <redirect />
 </navigation-case>

 <navigation-case>
 <from-outcome>hotel</from-outcome>
 <to-view-id>/hotel.xhtml</to-view-id>
 <redirect />
 </navigation-case>

 </navigation-rule>