Seam not outjecting to session after redirect

[arsenalist]

In my Seam component I have the following outject happening:

@Out(required=false, ScopeType.SESSION)
private SearchResults searchResults;


and in the method that's being called by the <h:commandLink/>, I have:

public void doSearch() {
   searchResults = ...
   return "external";
}

In pages.xml, I have:

        <navigation from-action="#{searchAction.doSearch}">
            <rule if-outcome="external">
                <redirect url="http://www.someurl.com"/>
            </rule>
         </navigation>


Once the redirect happens and the user eventually returns to my site, the searchResults object is not stored in session scope.  I even tried putting it in manually using:

Contexts.getSessionContext().set("searchResults", searchResults);

but even that doesn't work.

What am I missing?

[asookazian]

1) void methods cannot return a value.
2) have you tried it without the navigation XML snippet in pages.xml?

Try something like this:

<navigation-rule>
   <from-view-id>/foo.xhtml</from-view-id>
   <navigation-case>
     <from-action>#{searchAction.doSearch}</from-action>
     <from-outcome>external</from-outcome>
     <to-view-id>/welcome.xhtml</to-view-id>
     <redirect/>
   </navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>

to determine if it's the URL you're redirecting to that's the root cause...