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.
>
> --
> Arlo White
> Application Management / ITS
> CalPoly, San Luis Obispo
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> Arlo,
>
> So which case doesn't work?
>
> I am trying this, with /myapp being the context of a separate all, and
> /orbeon the context of the Orbeon Forms WAR:
>
>    http://localhost:8080/myapp/xforms-jsp/page1.jsp
>
> contains the following submission:
>
>    <xf:submission id="page1" action="/xforms-jsp/page2.jsp" method="get"/>
>
> I correctly end up at:
>
>    http://localhost:8080/myapp/xforms-jsp/page2.jsp
>
> -Erik
>
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Arlo White<[hidden email]>  wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Arlo White
>> Application Management / ITS
>> CalPoly, San Luis Obispo
>> [hidden email]
>>
>>
>> --
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>>

> I'm not using the OrbeonXFormsFilter. All of our XForms are viewed in the
> Form Runner. We've implemented REST services in the other webapp to serve
> XForms to the Form Runner and provide REST data services.
>
> So our webapp redirects the user to
> /orbeon/fr/app/form/edit/1234
> Orbeon requests the XForm through our REST persistence layer in our webapp.
> xforms:submissions go to a REST service is our webapp as well. (But here I
> need to specify an absolute url in the XForm, which I want to avoid as I
> explained in the first post)
>
> Should I still use the OrbeonXFormsFilter with the Form Runner?
>
> Of course our webapp could pre-process the XForms and rewrite the
> xforms:submission resource attribute, but I was hoping there was an easier
> Orbeon way.
>
>
> On 12/09/2010 08:19 PM, Erik Bruchez wrote:
>>
>> Arlo,
>>
>> So which case doesn't work?
>>
>> I am trying this, with /myapp being the context of a separate all, and
>> /orbeon the context of the Orbeon Forms WAR:
>>
>>   http://localhost:8080/myapp/xforms-jsp/page1.jsp
>>
>> contains the following submission:
>>
>>   <xf:submission id="page1" action="/xforms-jsp/page2.jsp" method="get"/>
>>
>> I correctly end up at:
>>
>>   http://localhost:8080/myapp/xforms-jsp/page2.jsp
>>
>> -Erik
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Arlo White<[hidden email]>  wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Arlo White
>>> Application Management / ITS
>>> CalPoly, San Luis Obispo
>>> [hidden email]
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> list.
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>>>
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