Support for HTTP forward

[chkal]

Issue by mvcbot
Tuesday Jan 13, 2015 at 18:01 GMT
Originally opened as mvc-spec/mvc-spec#35

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Original issue MVC_SPEC-23 created by Santiago Pericas-Geertsen:

JAX-RS 2.1 is likely to support a redirect call (just like servlet). This issue is recorded to track if whatever support is added to JAX-RS is sufficient for MVC.

[chkal]

Comment by mvcbot
Friday Apr 17, 2015 at 12:49 GMT

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Comment by Santiago Pericas-Geertsen:

Ozark implements redirect using the "redirect:" prefix. For example,

return "redirect:/foo";

which seems very convenient for controller methods returning strings.

[chkal]

Comment by mvcbot
Friday May 29, 2015 at 13:16 GMT

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Comment by peter_pilgrim:

Ok.

How do you get to the request.getContextPath() of your application then?

@POST
@Controller
@Path("edit/{id}")
@Produces("text/html")
public Viewable editProduct( @PathParam("id") int id,
                             @FormParam("action") String action,
                             @FormParam("name") String name,
                             @FormParam("description") String description,
                             @FormParam("price") double price )
{
    if ("Save".equalsIgnoreCase(action)) {
       /** ,,,**/
    }
    retrieveAll();
    return new Viewable("redirect:/products.jsp");
}

}

The "redirect:/products.jsp" will alter the URI and still include the Application Path URI e.g.

 http://localhost:8080/acme/gateway/product.jsp

This is probably not what the developer/designer wants. Instead they want

 http://localhost:8080/acme/product.jsp

Assuming the "/acme" is the servlet context path

?

[chkal]

Comment by mvcbot
Friday Jul 31, 2015 at 14:43 GMT

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Comment by Santiago Pericas-Geertsen:

The relative path resolution is currently documented to be compatible with javax.ws.rs.core.Response#seeOther, which is also available to MVC controllers that return a Response.

[chkal]

Comment by mvcbot
Wednesday Aug 05, 2015 at 18:48 GMT

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Comment by Manfred Riem:

I think what he is saying what if you want to break out of the servlet path, but instead want to target the context path?

[chkal]

Comment by chkal
Sunday Feb 11, 2018 at 13:00 GMT

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I don't think it is worth to include this in 1.0. Any objections?