As mentioned in the following Jira Issue: http://issues.liferay.com/browse/FACES-235 it would be very usefull to have the possibility to use a redirect
eg: FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().redirect("http://www.google.com")
even though it is not an done within a regular POST action.
How about chaning the redirect method in org.portletfaces.bridge.container.liferay.PortletContainerLiferayImpl to:
@Override
public void redirect(String url) throws IOException {
PortletResponse portletResponse = getPortletResponse();
if (portletResponse instanceof ActionResponse) {
LiferayPortletResponse liferayActionResponse = new LiferayPortletResponse(portletResponse);
liferayActionResponse.sendRedirect(url);
} else if (portletResponse instanceof ResourceResponse) {
final FacesContext ctx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
if (ctx.getPartialViewContext().isPartialRequest()) {
ResourceResponse portletResourceResponse = (ResourceResponse) portletResponse;
PartialResponseWriter pwriter;
ResponseWriter writer = ctx.getResponseWriter();
if (writer instanceof PartialResponseWriter) {
pwriter = (PartialResponseWriter) writer;
} else {
pwriter = ctx.getPartialViewContext().getPartialResponseWriter();
}
portletResourceResponse.setContentType("text/xml");
portletResourceResponse.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
// addResponseHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
pwriter.startDocument();
pwriter.redirect(url);
pwriter.endDocument();
ctx.responseComplete();
} else {
throw new UnsupportedEncodingException(
"Can only redirect during RESOURCE_PHASE if a Partial-(JSF AJAX)-Request has been triggered");
}
} else {
throw new UnsupportedEncodingException("Can not redirect during the current phase: "
+ portletResponse.getClass().getSimpleName());
}
}
Thus you'll be able to use both mechanism POST and AJAX Partial Request:
Example XHTML
<h:form id="myForm1">
This is a test to see how redirect is done within a ajax partial requect
<h:commandbutton id="btn1" action="#{controllerBean.redirectAction}" value="test redirect ajax" />
</h:form>
<h:form id="myForm2">
This is a test to see how redirect is done within a post
<ice:commandbutton id="btn1" action="#{controllerBean.redirectAction}" value="test redirect post">
<f:ajax disabled="true" />
</ice:commandbutton>
</h:form>
Example Java Bean Code
public class ControllerBean {
public void redirectAction() {
System.out.println("Action Triggered");
try {
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().redirect("http://www.google.com");
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
