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Guðrún Hauksdóttir
Guðrún Hauksdóttir

Reputation: 113

Play! framework form redirect not working

I´m having a problem redirecting from a play! form. I think the problem lies in how I´m handling the routes. The idea is that a user should be able to go to dashboard.html either by going first through index.hmtl using login from with a secruity key, or by typing directly in a valid path containing an access_token (using a qr-code redirection)

What I´m trying to do is as follows:

1) login using a form on index.html (route: Application.index)

Here is my form (located in index.html):

<form action="@{Dashboard.authenticate()}" method="POST" name="login">
    <input name="key" type="password" maxlength="128" value="${flash.key}">
    <input class="button" id="btnLogin" type="submit" value="Login">
</form>

2) authenticate and redirect to dashboard.html (route: Dashboard.dashboard)

public static void dashboard(String access_token) {
   /*
      ...some code
   */

    render(username);
}


public static void authenticate(String key) {
   /*
      ...some code
   */
     dashboard(access_token);
}

Here is my route file:

# Home page 
GET     /                   Application.index
POST    /dashboard      Dashboard.authenticate
GET     /dashboard      Dashboard.dashboard

The dashboard route works fine if I call directly upon dashboard(String access_token) through an URL like: http://localhost:9000/dashboard?access_token=0000 But if i try to login using the login form that calls upon authenticate(String key) I get this URL http://localhost:9000/dashboard?access_token&key=1234 where key is the var being sent to the auth()function. Clearly my fault lies with the routes, but I have tried and tested the logic and I am 100% certain it is sound. I´m using Play 1.2.4 I have spent two days on this problem and would be most grateful for any suggestions.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1732

Answers (3)

Gu&#240;r&#250;n Hauksd&#243;ttir
Gu&#240;r&#250;n Hauksd&#243;ttir

Reputation: 113

Problem Solved!

What I forgot to mention...oops was that I am also using jQuery Mobile and the problem had to do with Play! routing being overriden my jQuery Mobile page routing.

I disabled the routing by adding the following script:

$(document).bind("mobileinit", function(){
    $.mobile.ajaxEnabled = false;
    $.mobile.linkBindingEnabled = false;
    $.mobile.hashListeningEnabled = false;
    $.mobile.pushStateEnabled = false;
    $.mobile.changePage.defaults.changeHash = false;

})

Using instructions on the jQuery website: http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/api/globalconfig.html I implemented the above but the script needs to referenced in the .hmtml header in the following order:

<script src="jquery.js"></script>
<script src="custom-scripting.js"></script>
<script src="jquery-mobile.js"></script>

Upvotes: 0

Pere Villega
Pere Villega

Reputation: 16439

The Java code seems fine. Just in case, have you tried to change the routes file to:

# Home page 
GET     /                   Application.index
GET     /dashboard      Dashboard.dashboard
POST    /dashboard      Dashboard.authenticate

moving the GET before the POST (order matters, this should fix it if there is a Play bug on that section).

Another option is to simply rename the POST route, to fix the issue if it's caused by both routes having the same 'path'.

# Home page 
GET     /                    Application.index
GET     /dashboard           Dashboard.dashboard
POST    /dashboard/auth      Dashboard.authenticate

Upvotes: 1

Eve Freeman
Eve Freeman

Reputation: 33175

That actually seems like a bug. Maybe try 

redirect("/dashboard?access_token="+access_token);

instead of 

dashboard(access_token);

Upvotes: 1

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