Redirect to external site in faces-config?

[jjmiller]

I'm trying to set up my faces-config file to redirect to an external web site rather than a relative web site.  All the examples I see show something similar to this:

<navigation-rule>
     <navigation-case>
          <from-outcome>link</from-outcome>
          <to-view-id>/page1.jsp</to-view-id>
          <redirect/>
     </navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>

I'm basically trying to do something like this:

<navigation-rule>
     <navigation-case>
          <from-outcome>link</from-outcome>
          <to-view-id>http://www.google.com</to-view-id>
          <redirect/>
     </navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>

But doing it this way doesn't work.  Any ideas?

[ahoehma]

Hi,

I think that's not possible with default jsf (1.1, 1.2 ... 2.0?!).

You can write your own navigation handler, there you can check for "external" view-ids and do a http-redirect.

Regards

andreas

-[http://www.ahoehma.de]-

[ilya_shaikovsky]

You can write your own navigation handler, there you can check for "external" view-ids and do a http-redirect.

that sounds like a solution. But the easier way just to use h:outputLink with needed href. Or if need to perform the action - use h:command and in action perform call to facesContext.externalContext.redirect('...');

[jjmiller]

Ok, that's what I was thinking.  I'm currently using an h:outputLink, but was hoping there was a way to do it with the faces-config.  Thanks for the replies.