Redirect and GET parameters

[amorfis]

Hi,

There is page in my application with list of articles. I want to put there also links to articles, but I want to use redirect, for user to bookmark article page. Unfortunately I have problems putting this parameter into URL.

In pages.xml I have something like this:

<page view-id="/home.jsp">
 <navigation>
 <rule if-outcome="viewArticle">
 <redirect view-id="/article.jsp" />
 </rule>
 </navigation>
</page>

home.jsp is my list of articles, there is something like this:

<h:dataTable var="art" value="#{arts}">
 <h:column>
 ...
 <s:link action="viewArticle" value="more...">
 <f:param name="articleId" value="#{art.articleId}"/>
 </s:link>
 ...
 </h:column>
</h:dataTable>

When I click the link, I am redirected to URL:
http://localhost:8080/app/article.xhtml?conversationId=2

There is no articleId parameter. I tried to put h:form and h:commandButton there instead of s:link, but it also didn't work.

What am I doing wrong?

I know there were questions like this on this forum, I found a few, but I didn't find answers.

Best regards
Pawel Stawicki

[damianharvey]

Have a read of the documentation around page parameters eg. in your page.xml

Cheers,

Damian.

[amorfis]

I read the documentation. I have something like

<page view-id="/article.jsp">
 <param name="articleId" value="#{articleId}"/>
</page>

in my pages.xml.

Is this what you meant? If not, please give me some more hints.

Best regards
Pawel Stawicki

[pmuir]

Yes.

[alllle]

I have the same question.

The page param works fine with current window but it's not bookmarkable. In other words, user won't be able to locate this page 2 days later using
http://localhost:8080/app/article.xhtml?conversationId=2

The conversationId will be long gone by that time. The parameter needs to show up explicitly in the URL, something like:
http://localhost:8080/app/article.xhtml?conversationId=2&articleId=3

And is there a way to remove the "conversationId=2" part? (mine is "cid=xxx"). I suspect it's going to cause problem when user try to access the page with an expired conversation.

[pmuir]

The page param should allow you to do this.

And is there a way to remove the "conversationId=2" part? (mine is "cid=xxx"). I suspect it's going to cause problem when user try to access the page with an expired conversation.

No, Seam was specifically designed not to have this problem.

[alllle]

The page param should allow you to do this.

Could you elaborate it a little bit more? As described in the previous posts in this thread, the default behavior does not append "articleId=xx" to the URL redirected. what do I need to change to have the "articleId=xx" parameter show up in the URL?

Thanks,

[skanky78]

hi,

try the following in your pages.xml

<page view-id="/home.jsp">
 <navigation>
 <rule if-outcome="viewArticle">
 <redirect view-id="/article.jsp" >
 <param name="articleId" value="#{param.articleId}" />
 </redirect>
 </rule>
 </navigation>
</page>

cheers,
sven

[alllle]

"skanky78" wrote:
hi,

try the following in your pages.xml

<page view-id="/home.jsp">
 <navigation>
 <rule if-outcome="viewArticle">
 <redirect view-id="/article.jsp" >
 <param name="articleId" value="#{param.articleId}" />
 </redirect>
 </rule>
 </navigation>
</page>

Just want to close the loop: yep, this worked! Thanks!

cheers,
sven