Context state after redirection

ENV: 7.2.1/Solaris

Using a controller (via a component form submission) to gather results of a query and add the Document object (distSales) to the context.


context.getRequest().setAttribute("DistributorSales", distSales);

The controller then executes a Http302ForwardAction redirection to a results page.


return new Http302ForwardAction(new FullUrlTarget(context.getRequest(), new ServerRelativeTarget(context.getPageLink("/results-page"))));

That results page has a component at executes a method in an external that simply executes a getAttribute to retrieve that stored Document object from the context.


Document resultsDoc = (Document) context.getRequest().getAttribute("DistributorSales");

Unfortunately - it appears that the redirection "empties" the context and the result of the getAttribute is null.


#Logging output in the Controller
2012-08-26 19:49:40,295 DEBUG [com.somecompany.livesite.controller.distributorlocator.DistributorController] DistributorSales = org.dom4j.tree.DefaultDocument@1eb89f9 [Document: name null]

#Logging output in the External
2012-08-26 19:49:42,867 DEBUG [com.somecompany.livesite.component.external.distributorlocator.DistributorUIExternal] DistributorSales = null

Has anyone experienced (and found a solution) to this? Hopefully it's not a bug.

TIA

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Bowker

I'm not an expert here but...

The context.getRequest() appears to be getting information from the current request. The 302 redirect is actually telling the browser that the page it's looking for is not here, but rather at some other URL. The browser then makes a request to get that new page. That request is a new request.

You probably need to store your information in the userSession

import com.interwoven.livesite.runtime.UserSession;

UserSession session = context.getSession();

Attributes set here are persistent until the user session is terminated or times out.

HeMan10

Have you tried it with a forward instead of redirect?

Bowker

There are a number of restrictions on what URLs can be used in a forward request. For example I couldn't forward to an Alias. If there's a way to do that, someone please correct me, but we couldn't get it to work.