How to redirect to external URL in pages.xml?

[benmoore]

Hi,

In pages.xml, how can I redirect to an external URL? It appears that <redirect /> only allows view-id, not an external URL. Is there another way to do this in pages.xml?

thanks,
ben

[christian.bauer]

Didn't you ask the same question three weeks ago? I remember answering this at least twice already. Or, you could just look at the schema (I know, difficult to open with a text editor...).

[benmoore]

My previous question was how to redirect to an external URL from an action in the Seam way (not using FacesContext). The answer to that was to use FacesManager.instance().redirectToExternalURL(url) if using trunk (it's not in the GA releases yet).

This question is slightly different: how to redirect to an external URL from pages.xml, not from an action. And yes, I've looked thoroughly at the XSD.

[benmoore]

The xsd only shows view-id as possible attributes of <redirect/>. What am I missing?

[christian.bauer]

pages-2.1.xsd

[csaho]

Hello!

Try something like this:

<page view-id="/someView.xhtml">
    <action execute="#{ facesContext.externalContext.redirect( 'www.jboss.org' ) }" />
</page>

[accountclosed]

It appears that 2.1 of the pages.xsd now contains a url attribute for the redirect element so, in theory, one could say something like this:

<page view-id="/purchaseproduct.xhtml" 
   conversation-required="true" scheme="https">
   <restrict>#{purchasesession.started}</restrict>
   <navigation 
     from-action="#{purchasesession.submitpurchase}">
     <redirect url="#{purchasesession.getURL}"/>
     <!-- Where #{purchasesession.getURL} could be
          something like:
  http://www.onlineservice.com/mycompany?id=123&custid=456
      -->
  </navigation>
</page>

I say in theory because I've never used this before. :)

[benmoore]

cool. which version of seam do i need for pages-2.1.xsd to be supported? Will it only work in Seam 2.1? and above?

[accountclosed]

I'm hedging a guess that it's 2.1 and up since that attribute is not found in the pages.xsd of 2.0.x. You could always put that attribute in there and run it with 2.0.3 and see if it spews exceptions.

[didier]

Bonjour,

If you write this :

<page view-id="/someView.xhtml">
    <action execute="#{facesContext.externalContext.redirect('http://www.jboss.org')}" />
</page>

It works fine.

Thank you, it helps me.

[coldgin]

Thanks, Didier. That config example helped me out a lot.

[kchintoju]

I know this is an old article but this is on top when looking pages.xml redirect options in google.

<page view-id="/some-view.xhtml">

                    <action execute="#{bean.action()}" />

                    <navigation>

                              <rule if-outcome="true">

                                        <redirect url="#{bean.url}" />

                              </rule>

                              <rule if-outcome="false">

                                        <redirect view-id="/error/error.xhtml">

                                                  <message>#{bean.message}</message>

                                        </redirect>

                              </rule>

                    </navigation>

</page>