David, Thanks, but inquiring minds want to know - isn't that a bug in makeLink? I just have to know or I can't go on with life.
-Al On 1/20/07, David E. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jan 20, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Al Byers wrote: > David, > > Ok, but I thought this issue would stand on its own - is there a > reason why > the control path should be added to the url if the fullPath > parameter is > true? Either I don't understand the call structure for makeLink or > anyone > who tries to use it with fullPath set to true will not get the > expected > results. > > As for my application, I am using it in the content management > sense, and > the the "<content...>" tag (under certain conditions) creates an > iframe in > the HTML that needs to point to the "/content/control/ > ViewSimpleContent" > request and I am in the ecommerce app. So I figured I could use the > makeLink > call to create the correct url. I know that the "<link...>" tag > does the > same sort of thing, but it does not use makeLink in this way and > this seemed > like the way that makeLink should work. I thought about it and > figured it > is easier to just add the request to ecommerce, but thought the > makeLink > issue was worth raising. Do you mean in the screen widget? You can just use the link tag with the "inter-app" url-mode. I think I like this other way better though, ie adding a request-map in the ecommerce controller.xml file so it doesn't have to rely on that request in the content app. -David > > Thanks for your help. > -Al > > On 1/20/07, David E. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Al, >> >> Could you step back and describe a little more of what you are trying >> to do, the code you are using, etc? You did a good job here of >> explaining what happened but not really what you did or expected to >> happen. >> >> In general if you are linking to another application, you don't use >> the ofbizUrl tag or any of the code behind it, like the makeLink >> method. There are a number of examples of this if you look around. >> >> -David >> >> >> On Jan 20, 2007, at 2:52 AM, Al Byers wrote: >> >> > First of all, is this the correct protocol - I am not sure that >> > what I am >> > looking at is a bug, so rather than open a JIRA issue, I want to >> > bring it up >> > here, or should this sort of thing start with a JIRA entry? >> > >> > The RequestHandler.makeLink has a parameter, "fullPath", that I >> > would think >> > causes everything after the server and port string to be replaced >> > by the >> > passed url value. >> > But at line 757 there is: >> > >> > newURL.append(controlPath); >> > >> > So if I am doing a call from within the ecommerce webapp to a >> > content webapp >> > request, I get: >> > >> > http://localhost:8080/ecommerce/control/content/control/ >> > ViewSimpleContent?dataResourceId=10100 >> > >> > Should there be a conditional append of the controlPath? >> > >> > -Al >> >> >> >>
