Hello all.

I recently started really getting into Portlets, and made my first portlet with one HTML form on it to submit some stuff back to the portlet. However, the processAction method of my portlet was not called upon form submission. Then, I googled around a bit and found some discussions implying that I should send the form with the HTTP POST method, for the processAction to get executed.

Now I'm wondering if this is a requirement set by the JSR 286? I skimmed trough the spec, but couldn't find anything about this. So, what's the deal here? Is this a requirement by the spec, or is this something that the spec leaves for the portal implementor to choose on, or is Liferay in violation of the JSR 286 by not accepting form submissions with the GET method?

AFAIK, there is no such requirement from the JSR 286 spec.
A simple example can be a hyperlink with action URL.

Then what does this mean? Is liferay JSR286 compatible or not?

Apologies for digging up the old thread (and double post) but I'm trying to achieve the same. I have an implementation of GenericPortlet on Liferay. Everything works fine if I use POST. The processAction gets triggered, code works as expected. However, when I use GET, the processAction never gets triggered and execution goes straight to doView.

I found an article here

http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Check+Method+on+Process+Action

Is the post relevant for this issue? If yes, then how do I go about disabling it for GenericPortlet? If not, is there a way for me use GET and processAction?

I'm using Liferay 6.0.5.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Milton Waddams,

I am facing the same issue, did you got any solution for this. Please help me.

Thanks,

Karthik

I am also facing same problem. Can anybody tell me how to enable get method in actionURL requests?

+1 with same problem. If someone was able to resolve this, please update