static pdf doc opening no longer works in seam2.3

[clahrcwr]

I've just migrated from seam2.2.final/jsf1.2 to seam2.3.0.final/jsf2/richfaces4.

The following way of opening a static PDF document no longer works after the upgrade.

Any ideas as to why that is ?:

<s:link view="/img/User_guide.pdf"
               value="User Guide"
               id="UserGuideId"
            includePageParams="false"
             propagation="none"
             target="_blank"/>

The exception thrown is:

Exception during request processing:   Caused by com.sun.faces.context.FacesFileNotFoundException with message: "/img/User_guide.xhtml Not Found in ExternalContext as a Resource"

com.sun.faces.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletFactory.resolveURL(DefaultFaceletFactory.java:232)

com.sun.faces.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletFactory.resolveURL(DefaultFaceletFactory.java:273)

com.sun.faces.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletFactory.getMetadataFacelet(DefaultFaceletFactory.java:209)

com.sun.faces.application.view.ViewMetadataImpl.createMetadataView(ViewMetadataImpl.java:114)

com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RestoreViewPhase.execute(RestoreViewPhase.java:233)

com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:101)

com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RestoreViewPhase.doPhase(RestoreViewPhase.java:116)

com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:118)

javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:593)

org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:329)

org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:248)

org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:83)

org.jboss.seam.web.LoggingFilter.doFilter(LoggingFilter.java:60)

org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)

org.jboss.seam.web.IdentityFilter.doFilter(IdentityFilter.java:40)

org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)

org.jboss.seam.web.MultipartFilter.doFilter(MultipartFilter.java:90)

org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)

org.jboss.seam.web.ExceptionFilter.doFilter(ExceptionFilter.java:64)

org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)

org.jboss.seam.web.RedirectFilter.doFilter(RedirectFilter.java:45)

org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)

org.jboss.seam.web.HotDeployFilter.doFilter(HotDeployFilter.java:53)

org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:69)

org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter.doFilter(SeamFilter.java:158)

org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:280)

org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:248)

org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:275)

org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:161)

org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:397)

org.jboss.as.jpa.interceptor.WebNonTxEmCloserValve.invoke(WebNonTxEmCloserValve.java:50)

org.jboss.as.web.security.SecurityContextAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityContextAssociationValve.java:153)

org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:155)

org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)

org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)

org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:368)

org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:877)

org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:671)

org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:930)

java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

[clahrcwr]

I've just noticed:

with Seam 2.2 the 's:link' is rendered as:

<a href="/DataEntry/img/User_guide.pdf" id="UserGuideId" target="_blank">User Guide</a>

and with Seam 2.3 the 's:link' is rendered as:

<a href="/DataEntry/img/User_guide.seam" id="UserGuideId" target="_blank" type="submit">User Guide</a>

The actual file in the '/img' dir is of course 'User_guide.pdf'. Why is seam 2.3 ignoring/replacing the 'pdf' file extension ?

[mkouba]

Hi Ken,

User_guide.pdf is not a JSF view. So the right way to render a link to static resource like this is either use <h:outputLink> or regular HTML anchor...

<h:outputLink value="#{request.contextPath}/img/User_guide.pdf" target="_blank">Download</h:outputLink>
<a href="#{request.contextPath}/img/User_guide.pdf" target="_blank">Download</a>

An by the way PDF is not even image..

[clahrcwr]

Thank you Martin.

The <h:outputLink> did it.

and, yes, it should not be in the '/img'.

tnx.