redirect to an external URL from an action

[koenhandekyn]

anybody has a tip on how to redirect to an external URL from a seam action? as it ' seams ' :) like a very common requirement I guess there should be some elegent way foreseen but I didn't find any (yet)

the path i'm thinking about is to make a redirect page that takes in a parameter with the target URL.

kind regards

koen

[hstang]

Hi,

Have you tried using JSF API?

@In("#{facesContext.externalContext}")
private ExternalContext externalContext;

externalContext.redirect(...);

[koenhandekyn]

thank you very much !
it works !

i keep on finding that i'm missing some basic JSF background (I started with seam without having worked in deapth with JSF as i didn't like it a lot without seam :) )

thanx again

[koenhandekyn]

CONCLUDING NOTE

it would be nice however if seam would treat action return Strings starting with "http://" differently and do the redirect automatically. that would feel natural to mee.