My exception handler concept incompatible with RichFaces?
christian_koelle Oct 15, 2009 4:21 PMHi,
when my project started, I came up with the following concept for runtime exception handling:
- I extended the Faces Servlet. In a big catch-block I distinguish between exceptions representing an expired Session on the one hand, e.g. ViewExpiredException, and all other type of exceptions on the other hand.
- If the session has expired I do a redirect with HTTP-GET-parameters to the same Servlet-Path where the issue occured. In the Before-Phase of a RESTORE_VIEW-Phase-Listener I will look out for those exception-specific GET-parameters. If they are present, I write a message into the Faces-Message-queue saying something like "Your session has expired and was renewed." This is nice, because the user finds himself where he was.
- For all other exceptions I will log the error into the Error-LOG with a UUID to identify the error. Then I (try to) invalidate the session and do a redirect to my error-JSF-page, where the error and the UUID of the error will be presented to the user. The UUID of the error will again be communicated via GET-Parameters.
- In order to get controll over the ViewExpiredState I am checking this state myself in the before Phase of a RESTORE_VIEW-Phase-Listener. If I come to the conclusion, that the session has expired, I will throw a ViewExpired-Exeption myself to trigger the mechanism described before.
This concept used to work in a plain tomahawk project.
Unfortunately I think my concept is incompatible with RichFaces, but I am not sure yet. I might miss some background knowledge for proper implementation. Somehow I always end in a neverending loop or the "Session expired" user feedback does not come up.
Somehow more than one request is running into the RESTORE_VIEW-Phase-Listener: RichFaces Skinning-requests, etc... When I come up with the concept, I was not using my RichFaces-components and ajax-features.
I would be very glad, if someone could comment on that.
Regards and thanks in advance.
Used versions:- JSF 1.2 Myfaces-Impl
- Richfaces 3.3.1
- Facelets
- Jetty and Tomcat in development ---> Target JBoss AS