URLRewrite, MockViewHandler causing problems

[targeter]

Hi,

I have an action that throws an exception, which I want to handle through pages.xml. When I'm not using URLRewrite, everything works fine. But when I specify an outbound filter for the page that call the action throwing an exception, this shows up in the log:

2008-03-25 16:44:34,627 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[localhost].[/vl].[default]] Servlet.service() for servlet default threw exception
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: no file extension in servlet path: /signup

This makes sense, given the following code in that class:

int sploc = servletPath.lastIndexOf('.')
if (sploc<0) throw new IllegalArgumentException("no file extension in servlet path: " + servletPath);

I have two questions:

1. Why is a mock viewhandler used? Shouldn't that only be used for testing?


2. Why is it illegal to have a URL without a dot?

of course, the real question I have is how do I fix it ;-)

[targeter]

Sorry, can't seem to find the edit button.

I'm missing a line in the first code block. It should read:

2008-03-25 16:44:34,627 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[localhost].[/vl].[default]] Servlet.service() for servlet default threw exception
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: no file extension in servlet path: /signup
        at org.jboss.seam.mock.MockViewHandler.getActionURL(MockViewHandler.java:44)

[targeter]

The way I understand it now, the ViewHandler is trying to create a URL by looking at the request, which is the re-written URL that means nothing to Seam. How can I stop this from happening? I don't see why it needs a link to the current page, since it just needs to redirect to the error page.

[targeter]

The solution, for those interested:

Make sure the URLRewriteFilter comes before the Seam filter in web.xml.