each module ie Accounting is a container
also the Control interface is part of ofbiz not TomCat.
so you use a return string of "success" and it is processed by the
control.mxl for the request map that issued the process.
<response name="success" type="view" value="category"/>
bplies sent the following on 7/25/2008 10:30 AM:
> IIRC regarding servlet containers such as Tomcat (which is embedded into
> OFBIZ). Is that if you send a redirect, then the client browser makes a
> *new* HttpRequest for the redirect URL. So any attributes you store in the
> previous HttpRequest context are lost because they are not included in the
> new context.
>
> Either:
> 1. Do not use redirect but simply serve the correct content.
> 2. Use the Session context instead (and be sure to cleanup after yourself)
>
> Brad
>
>
> Grant Edwards-2 wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> According to the request-map below the redirect will be to the category
>> view. This view is defined as part of the OFBiz ecommerce project. One
>> of the many scripts run by this view is categorydetail.bsh. I have added
>> the following lines to this script, but by all accounts something is
>> lacking, most probably knowledge.
>>
>> Can someone please explain to me why my request attribute
>> (otaHotelAvailRSDocument) is getting lost.
>>
>> <request-map uri="otasearch">
>> <security https="false" auth="false"/>
>> <event type="java"
>> path="com.gat.search.service.product.ota.ProductSearchSession"
>> invoke="search"/>
>> <response name="success" type="view" value="category"/>
>> <response name="none" type="none" value=""/>
>> </request-map>
>>
>>
>> ProductSearchSession.search(HttpServletRequest request,
>> HttpServletResponse response) {
>> .......
>> request.setAttribute("otaHotelAvailRSDocument",
>> otaHotelAvailRSDocument);
>> .........
>> String requestName = "/category/~category_id=" + categoryId;
>> String target = rh.makeLink(request, response, requestName, false,
>> false, false);
>> ........
>> try {
>> response.sendRedirect(target);
>> return "none";
>> } catch (IOException e) {
>> Debug.logError(e, "Could not send redirect to: " + target,
>> module);
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> categorydetail.bsh --->
>>
>>
>> otaHotelAvailRSDocument = request.getAttribute("otaHotelAvailRSDocument");
>>
>> if (otaHotelAvailRSDocument == null) {
>> System.out.println("---request----> otaHotelAvailRSDocument is
>> NULL");
>> } else {
>> System.out.println("---request----> otaHotelAvailRSDocument is NOT
>> NULL");
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---request----> otaHotelAvailRSDocument is NULL
>>
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Grant Edwards
>>
>>
>
