Hello Try by returning a java.net.URL from your activate method. This should work i think.
Regards, Christophe. 2009/10/12 Martin Reurings <mar...@windgazer.nl> > Hi everyone, > > For various reasons (that are good enough for our team ;) ) we have to make > use of a sendRedirect to forward to an offsite url. This works fine when I > do so from an event, such as @OnEvent(value=EventConstants.SUCCESS) but > throws a NPE when attempting to do so from any phase of the render-request > :( > > Even the onActivate() counts as one of the phases for which it fails > unfortunately. I can redirect inside T5 just fine, using the obvious method > of returning a Class or Link, but I need to be able to redirect off-site as > well! As a results my post has two goals: > 1) I want to establish if this problem is a bug and if so should I report > it, or is it already reported (I could not find it in Jira). > 2) Can anybody come up with a work-around for this bug. The behaviour I > need is that a user-request to 'a page' causes the page to redirect to an > external url, without user interaction. (Currently I have a form with hidden > input containing pertinent information, and the user needs to click the > form-button). > > Some additional technical information: > - I am using Tapestry 5.1.0.5 > - This is the start if the stacktrace root-cause: > 12-Oct-2009 11:25:43 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke > SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet default threw exception > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.tapestry5.internal.services.ResponseCompressionAnalyzerImpl.isCompressable(ResponseCompressionAnalyzerImpl.java:65) > at > $ResponseCompressionAnalyzer_12448028aeb.isCompressable($ResponseCompressionAnalyzer_12448028aeb.java) > at > org.apache.tapestry5.internal.gzip.BufferedGZipOutputStream.openResponseOutputStream(BufferedGZipOutputStream.java:77) > at > org.apache.tapestry5.internal.gzip.BufferedGZipOutputStream.checkForCutover(BufferedGZipOutputStream.java:70) > at > org.apache.tapestry5.internal.gzip.BufferedGZipOutputStream.write(BufferedGZipOutputStream.java:116) > at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder$CharsetSE.writeBytes(StreamEncoder.java:336) > at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder$CharsetSE.implWrite(StreamEncoder.java:395) > at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.write(StreamEncoder.java:136) > at java.io.OutputStreamWriter.write(OutputStreamWriter.java:191) > at java.io.BufferedWriter.flushBuffer(BufferedWriter.java:111) > at java.io.BufferedWriter.write(BufferedWriter.java:212) > at java.io.PrintWriter.write(PrintWriter.java:384) > at java.io.PrintWriter.write(PrintWriter.java:401) > at java.io.PrintWriter.print(PrintWriter.java:532) > at org.apache.tapestry5.dom.Element.toMarkup(Element.java:367) > at org.apache.tapestry5.dom.Element.writeChildMarkup(Element.java:840) > at org.apache.tapestry5.dom.Element.toMarkup(Element.java:356) > at org.apache.tapestry5.dom.Element.writeChildMarkup(Element.java:840) > at org.apache.tapestry5.dom.Element.toMarkup(Element.java:356) > at org.apache.tapestry5.dom.Element.writeChildMarkup(Element.java:840) > at org.apache.tapestry5.dom.Element.toMarkup(Element.java:356) > at org.apache.tapestry5.dom.Document.toMarkup(Document.java:163) > at org.apache.tapestry5.dom.Node.toMarkup(Node.java:80) > at > org.apache.tapestry5.internal.services.MarkupWriterImpl.toMarkup(MarkupWriterImpl.java:57) > at > org.apache.tapestry5.internal.services.PageResponseRendererImpl.renderPageResponse(PageResponseRendererImpl.java:67) > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >