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nico1510
nico1510

Reputation: 606

Prettyfaces and Converter not working

In my web application I have a converter which converts from String to java.util.LinkedHashMap (and vice versa). When I try to use Prettyfaces I'm getting 404 resource not found errors. Here's my setup :

First of all according to this post, I tried decorating the converter with 

@FacesConverter(forClass = LinkedHashMap.class)

I also tried adding 

<converter>
  <converter-for-class>java.util.LinkedHashMap</converter-for-class>
  <converter-class>util.UrlConverter</converter-class>
</converter>

to my faces-config,xml.

Now the relevant code of my pretty-config.xml is : 

<url-mapping id="details">
<pattern value="/dataset/#{id}" />
<view-id value="/faces/details.xhtml" />
</url-mapping>

The URL rewriting itself works so I end up at URL : http://server.com/appname/dataset//someID IMPORTANT : Here's what I think might be the problem : All my ID's start with a "/" so after the part "/dataset" there are always two "/". If this is the reason for my problem how can I rewrite these slashes then ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 636

Answers (1)

chkal
chkal

Reputation: 5668

I think that the / character is really the cause of your problems. By default PrettyFaces uses the regular expression [^/]+ to match path parameters. So the mapping won't match if your path parameters contains / characters.

You should use a custom regular expression for the path parameter like described here:

http://ocpsoft.org/docs/prettyfaces/3.3.3/en-US/html/Configuration.html#config.pathparams.regex

This means that something like this should work:

<url-mapping id="details">
  <pattern value="/dataset/#{ /.+/ id }" />
  <view-id value="/faces/details.xhtml" />
</url-mapping>

Another option would be to replace the / character with something else in your converter.

Upvotes: 1

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