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paul8226

Accessing request parameter in the page-flow.xml

Is it possible to do something like this in the page-flow.xml?

<page path-info="/PhyCon/" view="http://localhost:9081/AppName/FormRetrieve?pliID=xxforms:get-request-parameter('pliID')">

So that when I call

http://localhost:9080/orbeon/PhyCon/?pliID=15426

the pliID value will get passed along to http://localhost:9081/AppName/FormRetrieve

Tom Grahame

Re: Accessing request parameter in the page-flow.xml

Hi,

I don't think you can and that the functionality you need is already built into pageflow.

Try something like this (untested)

<page id="phy-con" path-info="/PhyCon/" view="PhyCon/view.xhtml" model="PhyCon/model.xpl" default-submission="PhyCon/phy-con.xml">
<setvalue ref="/data/pliID" parameter="pliID"/>
</page>

phy-con.xml should look like your setvalue ref:
<data>
<pliID/>
</data>

When you call http://localhost:9080/orbeon/PhyCon/?pliID=15426

The piece of xml
<data>
<pliID>15426</pliID>
</data>

Then gets passed into the model on its instance input.

See here:
http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/reference-page-flow#url-extraction

Hope that helps,

Tom

paul8226

Re: Accessing request parameter in the page-flow.xml

Thanks for your help but I want the view link to see the parameter. The reason for this is that the view link is a Servlet and uses the parameter to dynamically retrieve the view from our content repository. This way we don't have to use the file system. It's uses the url parameter passed in to uniquely identify the form. This method worked for me.

<page path-info="/PhyCon/([^/]+)" view="http://localhost:9081/DMWeb/FormRetrieve?pliID=${1}" matcher="oxf:perl5-matcher">
<setvalue ref="pliID" parameter="pliID"/>
</page>

so a URL of "http://localhost:9081/orbeon/PhyCon/12345" would call the FormRetrieve servlet. The servlet would then be aple to see that url parameter pliID=12345

Paul

Alessandro Vernet

Re: Re: Accessing request parameter in the page-flow.xml

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Paul,

So you would like to create a sort of "proxy", so users don't see the
URL http://localhost:9081/DMWeb/FormRetrieve?pliID=${1} but instead
see http://localhost:9081/orbeon/PhyCon/12345. Is that it?

The page flow controller has not been designed to act as a proxy. What
does http://localhost:9081/DMWeb/FormRetrieve return? Does it return
the XForms code that then needs to be processed? If that is the case,
then I would map /PhyCon to an XPL that retrieves the XForms using the
URL generator, with a config generated dynamically in XSLT based on
information provided by the request generator.

Alex

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:38 AM, paul8226 <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Thanks for your help but I want the view link to see the parameter. The
> reason for this is that the view link is a Servlet and uses the parameter to
> dynamically retrieve the view from our content repository. This way we
> don't have to use the file system. It's uses the url parameter passed in to
> uniquely identify the form. This method worked for me.
>
> <page path-info="/PhyCon/([^/]+)"
> view="http://localhost:9081/DMWeb/FormRetrieve?pliID=${1}"
> matcher="oxf:perl5-matcher">
> <setvalue ref="pliID" parameter="pliID"/>
> </page>
>
> so a URL of "http://localhost:9081/orbeon/PhyCon/12345" would call the
> FormRetrieve servlet. The servlet would then be aple to see that url
> parameter pliID=12345
>
> Paul
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