Where is Click getting the ".htm" extension? Because while that is Click's
default, can't it be changed to something different in the web.xml?
Would it be better to try calling Context.getPageClass(String), and then
calling Page.setForward(Class)?
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Bob Schellink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> While investigating CLK-429 I realized the way we handle explicit
> forwarding of JSP pages might not be correct.
>
> Since Click cannot render a jsp page it uses
> requestDispatcher.forward. This works fine but a problem comes up if
> one explicitly forwards to a jsp Page, by invoking
> Page.setForward("customer.jsp").
>
> What happens here is that Click will forward to customer.jsp, and as
> ClickServlet is setup to process .htm extensions (not jsp) this
> request will not process the Page Customer.java.
>
> This same situation existed for redirects but was fixed by converting
> the jsp extension to htm. This ensured that the redirect was processed
> by ClickServlet and once the page was processed, an implicit forward
> is done to the underlying jsp template.
>
> Should we not do the same for forwards? In other words if a user
> explicitly sets the Page to forward, we should convert from jsp to
> htm, process the Page and then do a final forward to the jsp.
>
> To see this issue in action you can try the JSP example from trunk:
>
> http://localhost:8080/click-examples/jsp/navigation-a.htm
>
> and click on the forward link which passes a parameter. Note the
> parameter will never increase. This is because the Page we forward to
> is never processed.
>
> Should we change this behavior in 1.5-RC1?
>
> regards
>
> bob
>
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