Thank you Vincent Since I was not sure if this comes from XWiki or somewhere below I forgot the obvious solution - to search the source.
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sep 30, 2013, at 3:06 PM, Edo Beutler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I have a problem with a URL containing a parameter of the form > > action_...=... The page does not load with this parameter. For an example > > see the xwiki.org start page ( > > http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome?action_xyz). > > The parameter action_... seems to be used for something, but I couldn't > > find anything on what exactly and on how I can work around that. > > Unfortunately this URL is created by an external source (Facebook), so I > > can't change it. > > > > Can somebody point me in the right direction? > > I've just grepped the whole source code and I've found this: > > In ActionFilter.java: > > ... > if (parameter.startsWith(ACTION_PREFIX)) { > … > > where: > > /** The query property name prefix that indicates the target action. */ > private static final String ACTION_PREFIX = "action_"; > > This code is in a Filter. FTR here's its javadoc: > > * A filter that dispatches requests to the right action, depending on the > button that was pressed in the editing form. > * This is needed since the browser cannot send the form data to different > URLs depending on the button pressed, and an > * XHTML form has only one target URL. In previous versions of XWiki this > was accomplished using javascript code, with a > * fall-back on a pseudo-dispatcher inside the {@link PreviewAction}, > which was on obvious case of bad code design. > * </p> > * <p> > * The filter dispatches requests based on the presence of a request > parameter starting with <tt>action_</tt> followed > * by the name of the struts action that should actually process the > request. For example, the button that does > * <tt>Save and Continue</tt> looks like: > * > * <pre> > * <input type="submit" > name="action_saveandcontinue" value="..."/> > * </pre> > * > * As a result, when clicking the button, the request is not sent to the > form's target (<tt>preview</tt>), but is > * actually forwarded internally to > <tt>/bin/saveandcontinue/The/Document</tt>. > * </p> > > > Hope it helps, > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
