Use rel= property on a4j:commandlink ? Or other way to modify url of richfaces link inside of Portlet/PBridge

[masbae]

Hi,

im looking for a way to use the rel property of h:commandLink or a4j:commandLink. I've already tried to set it, however the url does not change to the appropriate value.

im using jboss portal 2.7.2 with the jboss portlet bridge.

The links now are shown like this:

http://localhost/portal/portal/demo/demopage/DummyPortletWindow?windowstate=maximized#

i would like to change the urls of the commandLinks

Is there any way richfaces would allow me to do that? for example id like to include the value of the commandlink into the url

Thanks

[masbae]

id like add some more info about this issue...

if i  view the html code i can see the href property of the part generated by  a4j commandlink which is currently set to href="#". Changing this to  something more meaningful would add something to the Link it seems  (tried with firebug) and the action still is working fine (it seems).

Can we alter the behaviour of the href property? a4j:commandlink and h:commandlink seem to support only hreflang

[ilya_shaikovsky]

use outputLink.

[masbae]

but then i'm going to lose the builtin ajax functionality and cant set an action parameter? plus the urls should not really be called, only shown , the action is being done by  action="#{bean...}" of a4j:commandLink

or is there a way to combine these two tags to have both the a4j action performed and the "rewritten" url correctly shown at the bottom and next page)

[masbae]

i have reviewed the richfaces 3.3.3 sourcecode and found one interesting line at

/*     */ package org.ajax4jsf.renderkit.html;

public class CommandLinkRenderer extends AjaxCommandRendererBase

Method:

doEncodeBegin(....

getUtils().writeAttribute(writer, "href", "#");

I think being able to change this to a variable value instead of # would solve my requirement. Do you have any idea how to set this value? Or how to overwrite the standard richfaces commandLink to be able to set this attribute?

Thanks

[masbae]

just to complete this thread:

ive found a solution to modify the href attribute. basically what you need to do is to overwrite the  doEncodeBegin Method of org.ajax4jsf.component.UIAjaxCommandLink;  (just create an extended renderer) and at following line remove the "#" with something useful like getUtils().writeAttribute(writer, "href", component.getAttributes().get("url"));

then you can use the url= parameter to set href.