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Re: Redirect in a FormHandler

by Janne Jalkanen :: Rate this Message:

I think it sounds like a valid idea; perhaps we should allow in 3.0 a
plugin to throw a WikiException?

(Forms are one of the older components in JSPWiki, and frankly, I
still don't quite understand how they work :-)

/Janne

On 25 Jun 2009, at 20:13, Roland Whitehead wrote:

> We've tried throwing a RedirectException but a formhandler is
> actually defined as a plugin and plugins will only throw
> PluginExceptions. As RedirectExceptions are acutally WikiExceptions
> (and thus on a different fork to pluginExceptions) it just won't
> compile.
>
> We're going to have a crack at writing to the header of the page and
> see what we can do. It seems very odd that the formplugin does not
> allow you to redirect to a different page according to success or
> failure - we rather think that this is one of the more obvious
> things that it should do. Perhaps we shouldn't be building this
> functionality into our handler but more into the formplugin. Does
> anyone else have a view on this?
>
>
> Roland
> --
> QURU Ltd, London
>
> On 23 Jun 2009, at 21:51, Janne Jalkanen wrote:
>
>>
>> Throwing a RedirectException does not work?
>>
>> You could, of course, also use TemplateManager.requestResource() to
>> write Javascript into the <head> directly.
>>
>> /Janne
>>
>> On 22 Jun 2009, at 20:48, Roland Whitehead wrote:
>>
>>> We've done a some work on the FormMailer FormHandler and have
>>> wrapped it into a jar file and generally tidied it up. We've been
>>> asked to add a redirect on success (similar to the original
>>> FormMail.pl cgi). Has anyone done a redirect from within a
>>> FormHandler? We've tried to trick it by outputting some javascript
>>> to redirect the current browser window to a new relative URL but
>>> this doesn't work - the javascript isn't even rendered. Any
>>> suggestions?
>>>
>>>
>>> Roland
>>> --
>>> QURU Ltd, London
>>
>>

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