ViewExpiredException - conditional redirect

[pramod_bs]

I have a requirement to handle ViewExpiredException based on the url context.
Ex: When the application View Expires while accessing the pages
1. http://localhost/applicationname should redirect the ViewExpriedException to say

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

2. http://localhost/applicationname/admin  should redirect the ViewExpriedException to say

<redirect view-id="/admin/viewerror.xhtml"> 

I am not sure how I can configure this in pages.xml. Hope I explained the rLPequirement properly for others to understand. PLEASE HELP

[billevans]

That's funny!!   I want to do exactly the same thing!!  

I will post the answer here if I find out before you!

[billevans]

By the way, I did try following the advice in section 6.7 of the Seam reference guide:

6.7. Fine-grained files for definition of navigation, page
actions and parameters
If you have a lot of different page actions and page parameters, or even just a lot of navigation
rules, you will almost certainly want to split the declarations up over multiple files. You can define
actions and parameters for a page with the view id /calc/calculator.jsp in a resource named
calc/calculator.page.xml.

... but it didn't work...  :(

[billevans]

Here's a way to do it:

In pages.xml:
  
   <exception class="javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException">         
         <redirect view-id="#{facesContext.externalContext.requestServletPath}">
            <message severity="INFO">Your session has timed out, please log in again</message>
        </redirect>
    </exception>

And for each of your pages:

    <page view-id="/main/main.xhtml" login-required="true">
         <action execute="#{exceptionHandler.redirectOnViewExpired}"/>
    </page>  

Where exceptionHandler is the name of an application-scoped class:

     @Name("exceptionHandler")
     @Scope(ScopeType.APPLICATION)
     @Startup
     public class ExceptionHandler {
     //
     @In(value="org.jboss.seam.handledException", required=false) private Exception exception;
     @In private Redirect redirect;     
     
     public void redirectOnViewExpired() {
          if (this.exception != null &&
             (exception instanceof ViewExpiredException exception instanceof NotLoggedInException)) {
               //
               String currentViewId = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequestServletPath();
               if (currentViewId.endsWith("blahblah.seam"))
                    redirect.setViewId("/expired.xhtml");               
               else {
                    redirect.setViewId("/login.xhtml");
               }
               redirect.execute();
          }
     }
    }

Hope this helps.

[billevans]

Whoops!! Sorry about the formatting... you should be able to dissect the solution though!

[pramod_bs]

Thanks for your input. Don't you think we should have something like:

 <exception class="javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException">
        <navigation  from-view-id="/*.xhtml"> 
          <redirect view-id="/home.xhtml">
                      <message severity="warn">Your session has timed out, please try again</message>
             </redirect>
        </navigation>        

      <navigation  from-view-id="/admin/*.xhtml"> 
          <redirect view-id="/home.xhtml">
                      <message severity="warn">Your session has timed out, please try again</message>
             </redirect>
        </navigation> 

 </exception>

SEAM GURUS.. Does this makes sense.