Re: Done Page and re-usable forms

[David E. Jones]

Why use a redirect at all? Why not just change the form target?

Or if you do want to use a redirect, use the more common (and generally 
successful) approach of saving the parameters in the user's session and then 
send down a redirect with minimal information. This can be done using a Control 
Servlet request event written in Java that uses the response object to send the 
desired redirect.

-David


Leon Torres wrote:

Hi all,






    <request-map uri="donePageRequestHelper">
        <security https="true" auth="true"/>

        ...
    </request-map>



        String donePage = (String) request.getParameter("donePage");
        if (donePage == null) {
            donePage = "error";
        }
        return donePage;
    }



Any ideas?

- Leon

I'd like to get to the bottom of this issue: Suppose you have a re-usable form such as editcontactmech that is called from various screens. To get back to the screen the user came from, there is a [Go Back] and [Save] link generated from a DONE_PAGE parameter that is passed to editcontactmech. However, suppose instead of having [Go Back] and [Save], the requirement is that the user is taken back to the originating screen upon submitting the form. Currently, the only way I was able to implement this was to have a special java event method called donePageRequestHelper as follows, <!-- call this request when you have a donePage that you want to go to after finishing a service --> <event type="java" path="path.to.java" invoke="donePageRequestHelper"/> <response name="viewContact" type="request-redirect" value="viewContact"/> <response name="viewAccount" type="request-redirect" value="viewAccount"/> <response name="viewLead" type="request-redirect" value="viewLead"/> public static String donePageRequestHelper(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) { The problem with this is that the request-redirect will end up adding all the form parameters to the URL. I see no way to resolve this with the current RequestHandler, except maybe with a flag to prevent the form POST data from being added to the GET parameter data. That is, it is only desired to pass along GET parameters to the redirect URL from the original request.

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