FormRunner - actions after form submission in Liferay portlet

Hi,

I'm experimenting with FormRunner placed in a portlet in Liferay.
I have written my own persistence layer and configured the following properties:

<property as="xs:anyURI"  name="oxf.fr.appserver.uri"                                value="http://localhost:8080/orbeon"/>
<property as="xs:anyURI"  name="oxf.fr.persistence.app.uri.*.*.*"                    value="http://localhost:8080/orbeon-storage/persistence"/>
<property as="xs:string"  name="oxf.fr.detail.buttons.*.*"                           value="save submit workflow-send"/>
<property as="xs:boolean" name="oxf.fr.detail.submit.content-from-persistence.*.*"   value="true"/>
<property as="xs:anyURI"  name="oxf.fr.detail.send.uri.*.*"                          value="http://localhost:8080/web/guest/home" />

When I run my form normally (http://localhost:8080/orbeon/fr/<app-name>/<form-name>/new/) everything runs fine:
*) Click on "Save", saves the form data and "Document saved successfully!" is displayed
*) Click on "Submit" saves the form data and shows confirmation dialog containing the message returned from my persistence layer
*) Click on "Send" saves the form data and redirects to http://localhost:8080/web/guest/home

The very same form but called from inside orbeone's liferay portlet behaves differently.
All keys do the same thing. They do save the form data but no message/dialog is shown nor redirect takes place.


In the beginning I thought it's some JavaScript issue but then I realized the server's response is different:
While in "standalone" it was:

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<xxf:event-response xmlns:xxf="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/xforms">
        <xxf:dynamic-state>pers:CF2D854D-0CF0-C5E2-9DA3-3D141A6F3263</xxf:dynamic-state>
        <xxf:action>
                <xxf:control-values>
                        <xxf:control id="xf-524" relevant="true" />
                        <xxf:div id="fr-message-success" visibility="visible"/>
                        <xxf:div id="fr-message-none" visibility="hidden"/>
                        <xxf:control id="xf-527">Document saved successfully!</xxf:control>
                        <xxf:control id="xf-529">Document saved successfully!</xxf:control>
                        <xxf:control id="xf-531">Document saved successfully!</xxf:control>
                </xxf:control-values>
<xxf:server-events>X2ztnLbujs+XocNBu3ADXGPWeK9rahjxCt3/nK2ZU/nH6W/ui0vnuzz4WMJTNTvVnc31hfPT3ksFQI5zT3JM8cfSpbi5LYa9glecSYUtYWY4kyGSRBJKAza1BsmLMSNB7zWFN9gOeJIga7MZbUDTQpHqczlRzNaRSxFS1xBMKEqAcsPgroz/0QRFPuJVGxUc9+h4/4BD6/vnqZQIvWxrBa1SksZ2R6LPkt0MlGu6SzyTGQh5E3skEWLteb5Eyh/C2Tl8LeroL75lOv987ymY15Gg1ta0Zdxo1c
                </xxf:server-events>
                <xxf:submission method="POST" replace="all"/>
        </xxf:action>
</xxf:event-response>
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in portlet mode it was:


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<xxf:event-response xmlns:xxf="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/xforms">
        <xxf:dynamic-state>pers:D3C5435A-4D91-A216-7673-920B93AEBABE</xxf:dynamic-state>
        <xxf:action>
                <xxf:control-values/>
        </xxf:action>
</xxf:event-response>
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Since the HTTP request is exactly the same (the only difference being element IDs) my guess there is something with PortletExternalContext vs. ServletExternalContext.
I don't have the time to investigate it in more details and can't get rid of the feeling that I'm missing something obvious.
Browsing list's archives I realized I'm not the first person integrating Orbeon with Liferay so I thought I'll ask these two questions:

Is this intended behavior or a bug?
How can one configure orbeon portlet to do something (display a message, redirect to another page) as a result of form submission?



Regards,
Milen Dyankov



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Milen,

Milen Dyankov wrote

Since the HTTP request is exactly the same (the only difference being element IDs) my guess there is something with PortletExternalContext vs. ServletExternalContext.
I don't have the time to investigate it in more details and can't get rid of the feeling that I'm missing something obvious.
Browsing list's archives I realized I'm not the first person integrating Orbeon with Liferay so I thought I'll ask these two questions:

Is this intended behavior or a bug?
How can one configure orbeon portlet to do something (display a message, redirect to another page) as a result of form submission?

This sounds like a bug. We fixed a few problems related to running Form Runner in Liferay towards the end of last year, and it was working fine then from what I could tell. But maybe something broke since then? I am not sure, and unfortunately dealing with portal-specific issues is too time consuming for us to be able to that through this mailing list (this is something we do for our clients who have a Development Support plan). You'll let us know if you find a solution to this one!

Alex

Alessandro Vernet wrote: Alex,
thanks for quick response.
Since you have customers using Form Runner in Liferay without problems can you provide build number / TAG / commit ID know to be working?
I may than try to investigate the problem further. I have so far tried  "orbeon-dev-3.7.1.200905272119" and custom build based on latest code from Git (30.08.2009).
Both have this problem. I will highly appreciate any hints of what may cause this or where to look first.


Milen



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