Universal JSF-native confirmation box

[nickarls]

Hi,

I know there are javascript-workarounds that enable you to use the JS confirm() to confirm actions on commandlinks but my question is:

Is there some way of intercepting (e.g. with some actionlistener and captureCurrentRequest/redirect magic) a commandlink (or button) and popup a view?

In my example case I have a dirty flag on my entity and would like to confirm loading another entity over the changes. So that clicking "OK" would be just like the dialog had never been there.

[pmuir]

I don't know of an easy (pre-built) way - but shouldn't be too tricky using pages.xml navigation rules...

[nickarls]

Sounds interesting, could you elaborate? I thought most rules there were for post-action navigation.

It might be a nice "you-can't-do-this-with-plain-JSF"-addition the manual since I would think this requirement is quite common.

[nickarls]

I'm bumping this since Pete seems to be up and running once more ;-)

[pmuir]

I suppose I was thinking about doing this on another view, rather than a popup from the current view.

For a popup (probably a better idea) you probably could use a modal panel from richfaces. Ask over there are you would need to get the sequencing correct calling the actions... and post a trackback here.