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Kakka
Kakka

Reputation: 21

CommandLink action redirect to external url not working

I am using jsf 2. I have a link in a facelet file that points to a external url. My current view is /app1/home.xhtml with a h:commandLink that has an action like so

<h:commandLink value="#{link}" action="#{action.redirect}" target="_blank"/>

the url that action.redirect redirects to is /app2/info.do. However it appears that JSF tries to change the extension of the url to .xhtml. and then fails with the error message.

com.sun.faces.context.FacesFileNotFoundException: /app2/info.xhtml Not Found in ExternalContext as a Resource

how do i get this to correctly redirect ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 9526

Answers (1)

BalusC
BalusC

Reputation: 1109865

Don't use the <h:commandLink> here, it's the wrong tag for the purpose. It is designed to submit a JSF POST form and navigate to a JSF view, both which you obviously don't want to let take place in this particular use case.

Just use the <h:outputLink> or even plain HTML <a>. So,

<h:outputLink value="#{action.redirect}" target="_blank">#{link}</h:outputLink>

or

<a href="#{action.redirect}" target="_blank">#{link}</a>

Note that you don't need the <h:form> in both approaches.

Upvotes: 5

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