Page action and navigation

[gonzalad]

I've a 404 error code when I have the folloging pages.xml fragment :

<page view-id="/virtual/inexistant.jspx">
     <navigation>
          <render view-id="/sample1.jspx"/>
     </navigation>
</page>

/virtual/inexistant.jspx doesn't correspond to a real Jsf page. I want just to navigate to /sample1.jspx.

When I change the previous fragment with :

<page view-id="/virtual/inexistant.jspx">
     <action execute="#{helper.sayHello}"/>
     <navigation>
          <render view-id="/sample1.jspx"/>
     </navigation>
</page>

It works ! (I've Just added action element).

Is it a bug or am I missing sthing ?

Thanks

[pmuir]

Navigation takes place when the view is submitted (or the action method returns) - so the navigation rules aren't run when you try to render a nonexistent page.