How to pass absolute URL with A4J.AJAX.Submit when switching tab in a rich:tabPanel

[klhoste2]

Hello,

The component rich:tabPanel generates the following code for each rich:tab (when switchType is ajax):

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="position: relative; height: 100%;" 
 onclick="if (RichFaces.isTabActive('j_id25_lbl')) return false; 
  if (!RichFaces.onTabChange(event, 'j_id11','j_id25')) return false;
  A4J.AJAX.Submit(null,event,{'similarityGroupingId':'j_id25','parameters':{'j_id25':'j_id25'} ,'actionUrl':'/RichfacesProject/page.jsf?javax.portlet.faces.DirectLink=true'} ); 
  return false; this.onclick = null;" id="j_id25_shifted">
[...]
</table>

I'm in a portlet environment and the URL should be absolute to be gatewayed by the portal.

There is the same issue for other Ajax components like rich:datascroller.

How could I change this "actionUrl" parameter from relative to absolute ?

Thanks by advance.

K.L.

[klhoste2]

I've found a piece of solution here : http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=822378&tstart=62 but I don't know how to modify the JS file, because it has changed a lot since 2007... I think it must be the ui.pack.js file but there is only a _flashGetActionUrl function and it's not really human readable.

Any idea ?

Thanks

[nbelaevski]

Hi,

Are you using JBoss Portlet Bridge?

[klhoste2]

Hi,

Yes I'm using the JBoss portlet bridge but with  the Oracle WCI Portal.

[klhoste2]

I found the method getActionUrl in org/ajax4jsf/framework.pack.js and it looks like this:

getActionUrl:function(A)
{
     var B=this._actionUrl;
     var C=B.indexOf("?");
     if(B.substring(0,1)=="/")
     {
          B=this._pageBase+B
     }
     if(!A)
     {
          A=this._ext
     }
     if(C>=0)
     {
          return B.substring(0,C)+A+B.substring(C)
     }
     else
     {
          return B+A
     }
}

I'd like to add this after the B variable declaration:

if(window.PTIncluder) 
{
     B = PTPortlet.getPortletById(getPortletId(this._form)).transformURL(B);  // builds gatewayed url
}

But I don't know how to write getPortletId function.

Can someone help me on this please ?

[alexsmirnov]

You don't need to change URL to be processed by portal. This code generated by portletbridge 1.0 which is Portlet 1.0(JSR-168) compatible. That version does not define resouce requests, therefore I had to use Servlet requests for AJAX. Otherwise, portal adds its own templates to requests and destroys response expected by library.

If you run you application on Portlet 2.0 ( JSR-286 ) compatible platform, there is bridge 2.0 www.jboss.org/portletbridge that uses resource requests for everything including ajax.