JSF, strange form action generated

[Jochen Szostek]

Hello all,

I'm having a problem with the JSF form action.

My spring controller is mapped to /users/form.html GET and POST requests:

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/users/form.html")
public class UserFormController {
 
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
public void form(Model model) {
model.addAttribute(MA_USER, new User());
}
 
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String form(@ModelAttribute(MA_USER) User user, BindingResult result) {
return "users/confirm";
}

But JSF generates an action to "/www.appletree.be/WEB-INF/views/en_GB/users/form.html":

<form target="/users/form.html" onsubmit="return validateMyForm(this)" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" [B]action="/www.appletree.be/WEB-INF/views/en_GB/users/form.html"[/B] method="post" name="userForm" id="userForm">

So my controller doesn't pick up the action of the form.

If I use firebug to change the action (in firefox) to /users/form.html the action does get picked up as it should by my controller.

I'm using Spring Web Flow btw to my flow handling but I guess this hasn't got anything to do with my issue.

All tips more than welcome since I'm a bit lost here!

Thanks in advance and have a nice day!

[Bauke Scholtz]

I would suspect Spring rather than JSF. It is Spring who specified the form action and passed it to the JSF. Try a Spring forum.