This is custom code, not sure it is best practices.
so not a concern for ofbiz.
bplies sent the following on 7/25/2008 10:55 AM:
> That is all well in good, but one of the lines of code provided:
>
> "response.sendRedirect(target);"
>
> Is clearly an HTTP Redirect signaled to the client browser which should have
> the behavior I describe and explain the loss of request attributes. It does
> not appear that the request control-flow is using the OFBIZ request control
> that you describe. Just look at how ProductSearchSession.search is defined.
> It is very much like a Struts ActionServlet.
>
> Brad
>
>
> BJ Freeman wrote:
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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