Use context as parameter

[damianharvey]

I have a requirement to present pages to Customers with the customer name in the Context Path rather than as a parameter

eg. www.somedomain.com/someapp/customerA rather than www.somedomain.com/someapp?cust=A

If I was using servlets I'd create one that took a URL pattern and strip the customer name out of the context path. What is the correct way to do this in Seam? Should I still use a Servlet or is there a better method?

Thanks,

Damian.

[waynebagguley]

If you configure pages.xml with this:

<page view-id="/customer*" action="#{bean.method}"/>

And then extract the rest of the URL from inside the method? That might work.

[pmuir]

Thats the way I do it (but it needs to be /customer/* iirc)

[damianharvey]

I've put the following in pages.xml :

<page view-id="/customer/*" action="#{customerBean.selectCustomer}"/>

If I call www.somedomain.com/someapp/customer/A.seam then this action is called.

I display my customer information on a page called DisplayCustomer.xhtml - how can I use this page in conjunction with the setup above to display the information of Customer A?

Cheers,

Damian.

[waynebagguley]

Are you asking how to get the page to display, how to populate the page with data or how to find out which customer to find the details of?

[damianharvey]

The first one; how to get the DisplayCustomer.xhtml page to display while keeping the URL as .../customer/A.seam (or even .../DisplayCustomer/A.seam)

In the bean I can strip out the "A" using getRequestPathInfo(). If it was servlets this would be easier by calling getPathInfo however the getRequestPathInfo() method of ExternalContext is returning null.

Cheers,

Damian,

[fernando_jmt]

Maybe you can use URL Rewrite Filter http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/

You should take a look at this: http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=89359

[waynebagguley]

You either have the action method return "DisplayCustomer.xhtml" as a String or configure pages.xml with a navigation rule and have the action method return the appropriate String.

[damianharvey]

"fernando_jmt" wrote:
Maybe you can use URL Rewrite Filter http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/

This worked very well. Simple to use an simple to configure. Nice tip. Thanks!

Damian.