Actually I want to read the whole input, and increasing tomcat maxPostSize is the solution.
But I was puzzled by the fact that I got no exception and instead I got this weird behavior. Is there something that wicket does that keeps tomcat from throwing the exception? On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Martin Grigorov <mgrigo...@apache.org>wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > >
