Renderer is not resolving a variable
I need to send an email to a user when they register on my website that includes a link back to the website to confirm their email address. I want to dynamically build the URL depending on the server it is deployed to.
I am trying to use a variable defined in components.xml:
<factory name="basePath" value="#{facesContext.externalContext.request.scheme}://#{facesContext.externalContext.request.serverName}:#{facesContext.externalContext.request.serverPort}#{facesContext.externalContext.request.contextPath}/"/>
NOTE: This text is all one line in components.xml. The forum is wrapping the text here for display purposes.
I have a SLSB that is invoking Renderer to send an email to the user:
public String register()
{
List existing = em.createQuery("select u.username from User u where u.username=#{user.username}")
.getResultList();
if ( existing.size()==0 )
{
// save the user
user.setValidated(false);
em.persist(user);
log.info("Registered new user #{user.username}");
FacesMessages.instance().add("An account has been created for #{user.username}.");
// setup a verification token
Token verificationToken = new Token(user.getUsername());
em.persist(verificationToken);
// place the token hash into the session for use by email verification
Contexts.getSessionContext().set("outtoken", verificationToken.getHash());
log.info("Created a new Token for #{user.username}: #0", verificationToken.getHash());
// send an email verification
try
{
renderer.render("/emailverification.xhtml");
FacesMessages.instance().add("An email has been sent to #{user.email}. Please follow the instructions sent to you via email to complete the registration process.");
}
catch (Exception e)
{
log.error("Error sending mail", e);
FacesMessages.instance().add("There was a problem sending your verification email. Please try again later.");
}
return "success";
}
else
{
FacesMessages.instance().add("User #{user.username} already exists");
return null;
}
}
emailverification.xhtml
<m:message xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:m="http://jboss.com/products/seam/mail"
xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<m:from name="Support" address="no-reply@example.com" />
<m:to name="#{user.name}">#{user.email}</m:to>
<m:subject>Email Verification</m:subject>
<m:body>
<p><h:outputText value="Dear #{user.name}" />,</p>
<p>Thank you for registering for a new account.
In order to use your account,
you must complete your registration by clicking on the link below.</p>
<p><a href="#{basepath}/validate.seam?tk=#{outtoken}">Click here</a> to complete your registration.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Glenn</p>
</m:body>
</m:message>
Here is a sample of the email that is generated:
Dear Bob, Thank you for registering for a new account. In order to use your account, you must complete your registration by clicking on the link below. /validate.seam?tk=gnqerr Regards, Glenn
The raw email message shows that the href is not set correctly:
From: Support <no-reply@example.com> To: Bob <me@glennmarcus.com> Subject: Email Verification Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_Part_28_7998763.1178031447360" Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 10:57:27 -0400 (EDT) ------=_Part_28_7998763.1178031447360 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <p>Dear Bob,</p> <p>Thank you for registering for a new account. In order to use your account, you must complete your registration by clicking on the link below.</p> <p><a href="/validate.seam?tk=gnqerr">/validate.seam?tk=gnqerr</a></p> <p>Regards,</p> <p>Glenn</p> ------=_Part_28_7998763.1178031447360--
The other variables #{user.name}, #{user.email}, #{outtoken} ) all get resolved correctly. The #{basepath} does not.
1) Why doesn't #{basepath} resolve?
2) Is there a better way to dynamically build an href in an email message being sent by Renderer?
Thanks,
Glenn
