Problems accessing request values

[sickboy79]

Hi,

I'am unsure if this problem is really seam related but I will raise my problem anyway here. I have a running seam application using SEAM 1.2.1 GA. In one of my pages I try to access the values normally contained in a HTTPServletRequest Object.

Following the EL Expression language Documentation there should be an object #{pageContext.request} providing these informations. For example #{pageContext.request.contextPath}.

When I try to access this object I get the following Exception which doesn't say to much to me:

javax.el.ELException: /ap1/download.xhtml: Bean: org.jboss.seam.contexts.PageContext, property: request
        at com.sun.facelets.compiler.TextInstruction.write(TextInstruction.java:48)
        at com.sun.facelets.compiler.UIInstructions.encodeBegin(UIInstructions.j
ava:39)
        at com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentSupport.encodeRecursive(ComponentSu
pport.java:232)
        at com.sun.facelets.tag.jsf.ComponentSupport.encodeRecursive(ComponentSu
pport.java:239)
        at com.sun.facelets.FaceletViewHandler.renderView(FaceletViewHandler.jav
a:580)
        at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:384)
        at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:138)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Appl
icationFilterChain.java:252)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF
ilterChain.java:173)
        at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.jav
a:63)
        at org.jboss.seam.web.ExceptionFilter.doFilter(ExceptionFilter.java:57)
        at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.jav
a:49)
        at org.jboss.seam.web.RedirectFilter.doFilter(RedirectFilter.java:45)
        at org.jboss.seam.web.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.jav
a:49)
...

Please note that this is not the full exception. If you think this is necessary I'll post the full stack trace. After debugging this a bit it seemed to me that the Page Context does not hold any objects...

Could you please tell me if the pageContext is depending on some extra configuration or even tell me any other way of getting the request url to construct links in my page.

Many thanks in advance,
Tobias