Hi, really I need to know if I can start a specific dialog and not work on the current dialog. For example: Boolean DialogHelper.canIStartDialog(String dialogName)
Or something else I can use to know if a dialog exists. Mario -----Original Message----- From: Rahul Akolkar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 maggio 2007 19.40 To: user@shale.apache.org Subject: Re: How know if a dialogs exists? On 5/21/07, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/21/07, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, I need to know if a dialog exists before starting it. Is there a way > > > to know it using shale-basic? > > > <snip/> If the question was "how to figure out if there is an active dialog, when using basic impl", the code snippet Craig posted below is implementation agnostic (will work for both dialog implementations available in Shale 1.0.4). -Rahul > > Oops ... forgot to answer the second part of that question. You can > programmatically check which implementation is in use (basic versus > SCXML) by checking the implementation class of the DialogContext > object you get back ... safest way would be to get the class name as a > String and check for a prefix of "org.apache.shale.dialog.basic" > versus "org.apache.shale.dialog.scxml" versus something else. > > Are you writing an application that might be used with either implementation? > > Craig > > > > > > If there is a currently active dialog, then you will be able to > > retrieve the DialogContext instance for it like this (in 1.0.4): > > > > FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance(); > > DialogContext dcontext = (DialogContext) > > context.getExternalContext().getRequestMap().get("dialog"); > > if (dialog == null) { > > ; // there is no currently active dialog > > } > > > > The trunk code (that should eventually become 1.1.x) has a helper > > method to make this easier: > > > > DialogContext dcontext = DialogHelper.getDialogContext(); > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > Mario Buonopane > > > > > > > Craig > > > This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.