Dynamic navigation

[matt.drees]

Is there a reason view-ids in nav rules in pages.xml couldn't be expression language statements?

for example:

 <navigation from-action="#{simpleComponent.doSomething}">
 <redirect view-id="#{dynamicNavigationManager.nextPage}"/>
 </navigation>

Right now, I can do something like

SimpleComponent {

@In dynamicNavigationManager

public String doSomething() {
 ...
 return dynamicNavigationManager.nextPage();

}

But it'd be nice to keep SimpleComponent as simple as possible, and have doSomething() return void. Also, this method forces a redirect (which is usually what I want, but maybe sometimes you don't. There was a recent forum post of someone who didn't).

I'll probably create a Jira request, but thought I'd post here to see if anyone thought it was clearly a bad idea.

[matt.drees]

So, if I submitted a patch to do this, would you put it in Seam 2?

[shane.bryzak]

It won't hurt to submit a patch. The worst that can happen is that Gavin rejects it :)

[matt.drees]

Yeah, but it'd be nice know at least a hint of what Gavin's thinking before putting work into it. It's no fun to submit a patch and have it be rejected.

[gavin.king]

Actually I would like to support this so please, submit a patch.

[matt.drees]

Sweet. I was just working on one.

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-1746

[csl]

Now that we have the patch, when will this be integrated? I'd really appreciate it.

[csl]

Thanks for committing this, Pete. :)