You can use Wicket API to set the maxSize - org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form#setMaxSize This way Tomcat will read the whole input and Wicket will report the error.
But maybe reading the whole input is what you try to avoid. On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Marios Skounakis <msc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some more info after further investigation: > > The problem is definitely related to tomcat maxPostSize parameter. I have > set this to a very small value (100) and the problem is occurring even in > very small regular (non ajax) form posts. > > Debugging this I found that > > org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.servlet.ServletWebRequest.generatePostParameters > > calls > Map<String, String[]> params = getContainerRequest().getParameterMap(); > and gets a blank params map. > > This explains the fact that the form is normally processed and rendered > with null component values. > > I am not sure how I can investigate this further. getContainerRequest() is > a tomcat RequestFacade object so this is where I stopped tracing the > execution. Perhaps it's a tomcat bug. I'll go ahead and try with different > tomcat versions. > > > > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Martin Grigorov <mgrigo...@apache.org > >wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Marios Skounakis <msc...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have the following problem: > > > - User submits form with lots of textareas via ajax > > > - User gets a blank page > > > > > > I think (but I'm not quite sure yet) this happens when the textareas > > > contain so much text that either maxPostSize or connectionTimeout > (submit > > > tries to store to db as well) are exceeded. > > > > > > The weird thing is that there is no exception. The form comes back > after > > > the ajax request with blank components. > > > > > > > So is it a blank page or just form elements without values ? > > > > > > > > > > Has anyone else seen this behavior? Why is there no exception? > > > > > > > If the problem is maxSize then there must be an exception. This will lead > > to onFailure() call executed in Ajax request. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > Marios > > > > > >
