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Is parameters in Controllers supported by Livesite 3.0?

SE123

Hi,

I am using Teamsite 6.7.1 and Livesite 3.0.

1) I am creating a component using controllers where I want to give URLs for success page and failure page but I want these URLs to be configured by the Web Master while creation of pages.
Hence, I tried to use Datum as Parameters of controllers but it seems that <Parameters> are not supported by Livesite 3.0. Please confirm?

2) If the above feature is not supported then how can I achieve this functionality in 3.0?

3) What is the role of <Param> in controller as they seem to be hard coded values that need to be set by the developer, as the Web Master can't configure it while creation of pages.

Thanks

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SE123

Hi,

Could someone please respond to this thread?

Thanks

AlexC

1. That feature was not available in 3.0. It was added in 3.1 and the logic component was created to allow this configuration.

2. I don't think 3.0 can (it's around 3 years old and what I remember of it is slim since there were a lot of releases since then)

3. Param was an initial atempt to add some ability to pass parameters to controllers. In 3.1 the actual Datum were made available, but in 3.0 controllers were just added and very bare in functionality.

SE123

1. That feature was not available in 3.0. It was added in 3.1 and the logic component was created to allow this configuration.

2. I don't think 3.0 can (it's around 3 years old and what I remember of it is slim since there were a lot of releases since then)

3. Param was an initial atempt to add some ability to pass parameters to controllers. In 3.1 the actual Datum were made available, but in 3.0 controllers were just added and very bare in functionality.

Thanks for your reply Alex, I understood about the limitation of 3.0.
I am facing another problem, however before posting the question I have also seen the same problem in other threads also but it doesn't lead to any solution.

I am implementing controllers without an External because I don't need any dynamic content for that page , I have a simple form and submit button but I have seen one thread where you had responded that External is mandatory for controllers So I had implemented that also but still nothing happened when I clicked to submit button.
Just for your information I am looking this behavior on LRE with debug logs enabled for livesite.
When nothing worked then I used predefined Login Component as is and deployed to LRE but after submitting nothing happened.
In logs I can only see the XSL transformation and other debug statements. The only statement which I think can provide a pointer is given below :

14:17:17,007 DEBUG [RuntimeControllerExecutor] RuntimeController.execute: iwPreActions= not in request. Continuing with execution of component.

Let me know if you need any more information.

Thanks

AlexC

External was required in 3.0 so no-op would work.

iwPreActions must be included in the FORM and contain which controllers to execute.

If you need an example, look at the Login.component, it contains the example of how the controller is configured and how iwPreActions is used to execute them.

SE123

External was required in 3.0 so no-op would work.

iwPreActions must be included in the FORM and contain which controllers to execute.

If you need an example, look at the Login.component, it contains the example of how the controller is configured and how iwPreActions is used to execute them.

Alex, as mentioned above when nothing worked I had tried to implement the same Login.component which Livesite provides as an example but that component itself is not working and the debug statement which I had mentioned is generated while accessing the same Login.component

AlexC

That component has been working without change for years and has been QA'd extensively.

Check your browser to addons that may be removing parameters (or interfering with forms)

Put that component on an empty page and check the source generated, if iwPreActions is not found then your Login.component is broken, restore it from out-of-the-box components.

Check your Login.component's XSL:

[html]

[/html]

SE123

That component has been working without change for years and has been QA'd extensively.

Check your browser to addons that may be removing parameters (or interfering with forms)

Put that component on an empty page and check the source generated, if iwPreActions is not found then your Login.component is broken, restore it from out-of-the-box components.

Check your Login.component's XSL:

[html]

[/html]

Sorry for late reply Alex,

Please find the source code which is being generated on placing the component in blank page.

[html]
<form action="/en/core/First.page?&submit=true&componentID=1345908622" method="post" name="loginForm">
<input value="1279100521640" name="ComponentID" type="hidden"><input value="Login" name="iwPreActions" type="hidden"><input value="www.google.com" name="URL" type="hidden">
[/html]

Initially, I had not set any parametrs but just to give another try I changed the datums and assigned values to Params which you can see in sorce code also where google.com is specifiaed as "LoginSuccessUrl".
I had also checked the lib folder and I found there were two jars prenet in lib folder livesite.jar and livesite-runtime.jar.
When I checked Manifest file I fount the version and build was same for both jars hence I had deleted livesite.jar because it doesnot contains LoginController.java.
Still it doesn't worked and logs related to LoginController.java is generated.

AlexC

There is an input called ComponentID which is different that componentId in the action parameter of the form, was that added by the component?

SE123

There is an input called ComponentID which is different that componentId in the action parameter of the form, was that added by the component?

No, this is a typo mistake which I had made while copying from source, otherwise the component Id is same in actual scenario.

SE123

There is an input called ComponentID which is different that componentId in the action parameter of the form, was that added by the component?

For more clarity, please find the actual source which is getting generated

[HTML]

[/HTML]

Also Alex just for your information I am using livesite-runtime.jar. Do I need to use some other jar?

AlexC

You only need livesite-runtime.jar for this.

Can you post your component XSL/properties/data, I am trying to figure out what the component is doing or is this OOTB login component?

SE123

You only need livesite-runtime.jar for this.

Can you post your component XSL/properties/data, I am trying to figure out what the component is doing or is this OOTB login component?

As requested, please find attached code.

SE123

You only need livesite-runtime.jar for this.

Can you post your component XSL/properties/data, I am trying to figure out what the component is doing or is this OOTB login component?

Hi Alex,

Did you get time to validate the code or do you think it is something related to configuration?

Thanks in Advance.

AlexC

I do not see anything obvious that may be a problem. iwPreActions is present and should have been submitted.

As the next step I'd like to trace the HTTP requests. Can you install firefox (unless you have it already) and a plugin called HttpFox.

1. Start HttpFox.
2. Request the page.
3. Submit login.
4. Stop HttpFox and post the headers (you can ignore the ones for images and other static content, just the .page ones, or if in doubt save it to a text file and post it).

SE123

I do not see anything obvious that may be a problem. iwPreActions is present and should have been submitted.

As the next step I'd like to trace the HTTP requests. Can you install firefox (unless you have it already) and a plugin called HttpFox.

1. Start HttpFox.
2. Request the page.
3. Submit login.
4. Stop HttpFox and post the headers (you can ignore the ones for images and other static content, just the .page ones, or if in doubt save it to a text file and post it).

Hi Alex,

As requested, PFA header information.
Thanks in advance.

AlexC

The actual post data is missing from the request, any change you can post that too. I will try and figure out why this is happening, everything looks ok so far.

Do you have any filters installed in the app server (web.xml changes)?

SE123

The actual post data is missing from the request, any change you can post that too. I will try and figure out why this is happening, everything looks ok so far.

Do you have any filters installed in the app server (web.xml changes)?

Yes, Alex we are using filters in our application but looking into code I can say that it is not doing much it is just checking the page URL and for some specific URL it is redirecting to main login page of web site.

AlexC

Can you attach the actual POST data along with the headers so I can see what data is being passed on form submit.

SE123

Can you attach the actual POST data along with the headers so I can see what data is being passed on form submit.

Hi Alex,

PFA document which contains al the header information.
One strange thing I found that after clicking on submit button two requests are getting fired one is POST which contains post data and second is GET which doesn't contain any data.

SE123

Can you attach the actual POST data along with the headers so I can see what data is being passed on form submit.

Hi Alex,

Is the provided data sufficient?

AlexC

NO, it does not include the POST data, only headers. I want to see what data is being POSTed to see if that can give me a hint as to what is wrong.

SE123

NO, it does not include the POST data, only headers. I want to see what data is being POSTed to see if that can give me a hint as to what is wrong.

Alex, you will find the post data in same text file under the heading "POST DATA&colon;" , I had retrieved this data from HTTPFox's Post Tab.
Do you want something else?