The reason behind this problem is that TagConstants.AMPERSAND is used in the Href.toString() method that generates the URL for the sort operation. TagConstants.AMPERSAND is set to "&" so there's no way to control whether hrefs use & or &. I filed a bug on this in DisplayTag Jira.
Rick Herrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:displaytag-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Herrick > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 5:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [displaytag-user] Prevent sort and paging URLs from encoding > > I'm using displaytags to handle tables in a portlet. The Epicentric > portal just makes a basic HTTP request to my app, which returns some HTML. > For the most part this works well, except that all of the links in the > code I return get intercepted and proxied by the portal. > > The problem is that displaytags encodes meaningful characters in the URLs > that are generated automatically, e.g. a sort link looks something like > this: > > /Promotions/test.do?d-2708187-s=2&d-2708187-o=2 > > When the portal proxies this, it re-encodes the ampersand, resulting in: > > /Promotions/test.do?d-2708187-s=2&d-2708187-o=2 > > This causes me to lose these parameters. Then, when you click on the sort > links, the passed-back parameters get replicated, meaning that the rogue > "amp;" strings get replicated as part of the parameter names, resulting in > something like this: > > &d-2708187-o=2 > > Not what I'm going for! > > So the question is, is there any way to instruct displaytags to NOT do > this encoding and produce a link with just plain ol' unencoded ampersands? > Or is there another workaround for this? > > Thanks! > > -- > Rick Herrick > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Proud member of the reality-based community > > Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.--Bertrand > Russell > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues > Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. > It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt > _______________________________________________ > displaytag-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/displaytag-user ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ displaytag-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/displaytag-user
