Can you put a trace in that closure to see if 'user' has the correct value?
S.redirectTo("thank_you", () => {println(user); userVar(user);})
etc.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Jay Cain <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think that this would work....
>
> // Set up a requestVar to track the user object
> object userVar extends RequestVar(new User())
>
> S.redirectTo("thank_you", () => {userVar(user);})
>
> but no bueno.
>
> On Jan 27, 4:56 pm, Naftoli Gugenheim <[email protected]> wrote:
> > When you redirect you start a new request, so RequestVars are fresh.
> > redirectTo has an overload that take additionally a function to execute
> in the new request. Set the RequestVar there.
> >
> > -------------------------------------
> >
> > Jay Cain<[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I am a newbie to Lift and Scala.  I'm registering users and once they
> > have entered the information in successfully.  I want to redirect to a
> > "thank_you" page that will display a snippet
> >
> > <lift:UserOps.thanksMessage>
> >         <p>
> >             <entry:fullname/> thanks for joining Echo.  The
> > confirmation
> >                 instructions for completing the signup process have been
> sent to
> >                 your email address, <entry:email/>
> >         </p>
> > </lift:UserOps.thanksMessage>
> >
> > I assume that when I redirect it doesn't hold the state of the user
> > information.
> >
> > On submit I invoke signup
> >
> > def signup(xhtml: NodeSeq) : NodeSeq = {
> >   ........
> >   S.redirectTo("thank_you")
> >
> > }
> >
> > ThanksMessage function....................
> >
> > def thanksMessage(xhtml: NodeSeq) : NodeSeq = {
> >     print("Username: " + user.username)
> >     bind("entry", xhtml,
> >            "fullname" -> Text(user.userProfile.fullName),
> >            "email" -> Text(user.email))
> >
> > }
> >
> > I have declared a RequestVar object
> >
> > ** object userVar extends RequestVar(new User()) **
> >
> > but I'm sure that it is creating an empty user object in my RequestVar
> > userVar when I redirect.
> >
> > Is a StatefulSnippet the solution for this?  I just think that there's
> > a much simpler solution that I'm overlooking.
> >
> > Jay
> >
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