Redirct of JSF page

[Jeff Calusinski]

I am using Rational App Dev and I am trying to figure out how to get my JSF page to redirect to another page if all of the required information is not present. I am trying to prevent errors when a user bookmarks my JSF pages. I mention Rational, because when JSF pages are created, the backing bean is an auto generated bean in the pagecode package.

Cheers
-Jeff

[Bauke Scholtz]

Let the action method return a String. This will be handled by the navigation case in the faces-config.

Basic example:

JSF

<h:commandButton value="submit" action="#{myBean.action}" />

MyBean

public String action() {
    // Do your thing.
 
    if (isValidRequest) {
        return "validRequest";
    } else {
        return "invalidRequest";
    }
}

faces-config.xml

<navigation-rule>
    <navigation-case>
        <from-outcome>validRequest</from-outcome>
        <to-view-id>/pages/success.jsp</to-view-id>
    </navigation-case>
    <navigation-case>
        <from-outcome>invalidRequest</from-outcome>
        <to-view-id>/pages/error.jsp</to-view-id>
    </navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>

[Sudhakar Guntaka]

Hello Jeff,

Bauke's post seems to be a good solution. Does that solve your problem?

cheers,
Sudhakar