OK, thanks for the help.
If I do it in Java, how can I grab the form data to send to the next portlet. Do I have to post the form to myself (first portlet ) and then collect the form params somehow and then do the forward to the next portlet in Java. ???? Cheers Paul. On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 12:31, Holger Dewes wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Paul Hussein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:13 PM > > To: Jetspeed User Mailing List > > Subject: Passing parameters between portlets > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a question about passing parameters between portlets. > > > > I want to pass some JSP generated HTML form parameters from > > the portal it is in to another portal for processing. I cant > > see how to do this. When I forward to the next portal and > > check the portalparams there is nothing. > > > > I have a form in a portlet that is created using JSP and the > > JSPPortlet definition in the xreg. > > > > XREG > > > > ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > <registry> > > <portlet-entry name="GMO Form" hidden="false" type="ref" > > parent="JSP" application="false"> > > <meta-info> > > <title>GMO Form</title> > > <description>GMO Form</description> > > </meta-info> > > > > <classname>org.apache.jetspeed.portal.portlets.JspPortlet</classname> > > <parameter name="template" value="form1.jsp" hidden="true" > > cachedOnName="true" cachedOnValue="true"/> > > <media-type ref="html"/> > > <url cachedOnURL="true"/> > > <category group="gmo.dynamic">GMO REGEX Dynamic > > Content Porlets</category> > > </portlet-entry> > > </registry> > > > > > > FORWARD XML > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > <forwards-configuration> > > <forward name='CreateDossierForward'> > > <pane id='P-f8ef4c6266-10007'/> > > </forward> > > </forwards-configuration> > > > > > > > > JSP > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] contentType="text/html"%> > > <%@ taglib uri='/WEB-INF/templates/jsp/tld/template.tld' > > prefix='jetspeed'%> > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Frameset//EN" > > "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/frame.dtd";> > > <html> > > <head> > > <title>Document Handling</title> > > </head> > > <body> > > <form action="<jetspeed:forward > > name='CreateDossierForward'/>" method="post"> > > <p> > > <br> > > <table> > > <tr> > > <td> Dossier Type </td> > > <td> <input type="text" name="dossiertype" > > value="bsnif_gmp"> </td> > > </tr> > > <table> > > <br> > > <input type="submit" name="eventSubmit_doUpdate" value="Update"> > > <input type="reset" value="Reset"> > > </p> > > </form> > > </body> > > </html> > > > > The problem is that forwards are done using redirect. This creates a new > request which will not contain the request parameters sent with the > form. In Velocity, you can add request parameters to the forward URL by > using addQueryData(), but I don't know if this is possible in JSP, and > anyway would not be much help to you because the parameters are part of > the form. > > So you probably need to do the forward in Java, using the > ForwardService. There you can add the request parameters from the form, > or put them in the session and collect them in the second portlet. > > See http://jakarta.apache.org/jetspeed/site/forwards.html > > HTH --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
