Setting conversation-Id via pages.xml

christian.douven Sep 10, 2007 9:23 AM

How can a conversation-id be explicitly set via pages.xml?

Using the "id" parameter of the @Begin annotation is marked deprecated in the api-doc. But the api-doc says:

"Deprecated. use in pages.xml"

The pdf-reference also suggestest to use @Begin, but there is no explanation on hoe to do it via pages.xml.

1. Re: Setting conversation-Id via pages.xml

delphi'sghost Sep 10, 2007 1:17 PM (in response to christian.douven)
In pages.xml put something like :

<conversation name="testConversation" param-name="myID" param-value="#{widget.id}"/>

Then for your page use something like :

<page ..... conversation="testConversation"/>

This sets the conversation Id to the value of widget.id, but there are a couple of problems when using the conversation switcher.

http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-1423

However, for the most part, the good stuff works (like switching to a conversation for a specific widget Id if it already exists).

The one sticky part I've come across is what to do with new widgets which technically don't have an id until saved.
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