how to end and begin conversation on entering page?

[deanhiller2000]

we have two urls xxxx/newticket and xxxx/ticket/1342

in both instances, users can go directly to this url and we need to end the conversation and begin a new one.  I can't add @End and @Begin to a method, can I?  or end-conversation in the page and @Begin in the method.

This goes back to an issue I filed where @Begin should have a param of end previous conversation(and the default should nearly always be true to end any previous conversations).

[babazs]

You should end the conversation when you leave the previous page(rule,endconversation,redirect in the pages.xml), then add begin-conversation in the pages.xml of the new page.

[amitev]

Or use the following workaround

     /**
      * Kills the existing and begins a new long-running conversation.
      */
     protected void endExistingAndStartNewConversation() {
          String convID = Conversation.instance().getId();
          Conversation.instance().leave();
          Conversation.instance().begin();
          Lifecycle.destroyConversationContext(getSessionMap(), convID);
          ConversationEntries.instance().removeConversationEntry(convID);
     }

     /**
      * Returns a holding session entries.
      * 
      * @return the session map.
      */
     private Map<String, Object> getSessionMap() {
          // this method could be moved to a utility class
          Map<String, Object> session = new HashMap<String, Object>();
          String[] sessionAttributeNames = Contexts.getSessionContext()
                    .getNames();

          for (String attributeName : sessionAttributeNames) {
               session.put(attributeName, Contexts.getSessionContext().get(
                         attributeName));
          }
          return session;
     }

[yahawari]

is this related ?

My Link

[asookazian]

Yes, it's related to that thread.  The bottom line on that from PMuir is this:

@End(beforeRedirect=true) for this purpose. No, there is no way to end and start a new conversation without doing a redirect, and no, we aren't planning to implement such a function in core Seam. Someone should write a wiki article showing how to do this, with a custom component :-)