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From: Arlo White <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Sent: Thu, December 9, 2010 8:35:32 PM
Subject: [ops-users] xforms:submission resource url re-writing

We have a separate webapp (/remote) with REST services that Orbeon accesses. I want my xforms:submission resource urls to point to this webapp without having to hard-code an absolute url. This is because these xforms will be transferred between different servers and I don't want to edit the XForm every time I do so.

One possibility is to pass in the remote service url prefix through a parameter or property. I couldn't get xxforms:get-request-parameter() to work for me. I'm not sure what other methods I might use. Maybe I can create my own property in properties-local.xml and inject it into the url?

I've been reading through:
http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/admin/url-rewriting

This seems to indicate that I can use .. in a url and Orbeon will translate it. However, ../remote/my/service didn't work. This would have been the easiest...

Portions of the documentation sound promising:

If the URL is an absolute path, the URL is rewritten
 * usually, this means that the servlet context path is prepended
 * in some cases, like separate deployment, a different context is prepended depending on the type of resources

But I'm not sure how to configure Orbeon to prepend a different context in some cases. (for xforms:submission resource attributes)

I tried setting     <property as="xs:anyURI"  name="oxf.url-rewriting.service.base-uri" value="/remote"/>
But this broke the Form Runner and Builder.

I'd appreciate any recommendations on the best way to do this.

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Arlo White
Application Management / ITS
CalPoly, San Luis Obispo
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