Force "company" selection after login

[ssamayoagt]

This is my problem:

After a user has logged-in he/she must select a company before doing anything else. I tried redirecting to the company selection view in pages.xml and [view].page.xml but initial GET doesnt fire navigation rule.

Reading thru seam reference it seems that what I need is an interceptor but before wasting time please tell me if I'm going in the correct direction. I'm not using EJB.

Thanks.

[titou09]

We had recently the same need.

I suppose here that you use seam security with an authenticator component/method

For this we use two things

• a navigation rule in page.xml that redirect the user until a condition is met (he selected a company in your case)


• in the Authenticator.authenticate() method, call Render.instance().setViewId(\<your view id name to select the company here\>)

After the user has been authenticated, it will be redirect to the page you want, and with the navigation/rule statement in page.xml, it will stay on this page untill the condition set in pages.xml is false

Hope this helps

[ssamayoagt]

Thanks for your response.

I'm using the JpaIdentityStore, I'm not Authenticator.authenticate() but I guess is matter of some minor changes to use it with the JpaIdentityStore.

About navogation rule, I tried this:

     <page view-id="*">
          <navigation>
               <rule if-outcome="home">
                    <redirect view-id="/home.xhtml" />
               </rule>
               <rule if="#{identity.isLoggedIn and empreaActual eq null}">
                    <redirect view-id="/selemp.xhtml" />
               </rule>
          </navigation>
     </page>

But the app never goes to the view.

Some little more help please.

Regards.

[titou09]

Maybe extends JpaIdentityStore, override  the authenticate method, call super.authenticate() in there and if the result is true then call Render.instance().setViewId(/selemp.xhtml).

Should work.

[ssamayoagt]

Thanks, I will try.
Regards.

[swd847]

<page view-id="*" action="#{''.toString()}">
  <navigation from-action="#{''.toString()}" >
     <rule if="#{identity.isLoggedIn and empreaActual eq null}">
       <redirect view-id="/selemp.xhtml" />
     </rule>
  </navigation>
</page>

Note the use of a dummy action, navigation rules are only evaluated after an action is run.

[ssamayoagt]

Thanks Stuart.
I will have on mind - I never figure out that way!

By the way, I solve my problem using events:

components.xml:
     <event type="com.ls.noHayEmpresaActual">
          <action execute="#{redirect.captureCurrentView}" />
          <action execute="#{manager.redirect('/selemp.xhtml')}" />
     </event>
     <event type="com.ls.yaHayEmpresaActual">
          <action execute="#{redirect.returnToCapturedView}" />
     </event>

And each view which needs a selected company runs an component's action like (actual code):

Some.page.xml:
     <action execute="#{eventosEmpresa.hayEmpresaActual}" />

And the "eventosEmpresa" component raises both events (partial EventosEmpresa class):

     @In(required = false)
     @Out(required = false)
     protected Empresa empresaActual;

     @In(required = false)
     protected Events events;

     @Logger
     private Log log;

     public void hayEmpresaActual() {
          if (empresaActual == null && events != null) {
               log.info("hayEmpresaActiva(): no hay empresa activa.");
               events.raiseEvent(EventosEmpresa.NO_HAY_EMPRESA_ACTUAL);
          }
     }

     public void setEmpresaActual(Empresa empresaActual) {
          this.empresaActual = empresaActual;
     }

     public void seleccionarEmpresa() {
          if (empresaActual != null && events != null) {
               log.info("seleccionarEmpresa(): Ya hay empresa activa.");
               events.raiseEvent(EventosEmpresa.YA_HAY_EMPRESA_ACTUAL);
          }
     }

"seleccionarEmpresa()" is called from company selection view's command link.

So far, works great even with pages which requires login.

I posted my solution because maybe someone nees the same functionality.

Seam rules!

Regards.