endAndRedirect in pages.xml?

19. Aug 2008, 17:34 CET | Link Jesse Sweetland

Is there any way to effect a Conversation.endAndRedirect in pages.xml? For example:

<page view-id="page1.xhtml" conversation-required="true">
    <navigation from-action="#{contactManager.newContact}">
        <rule if-outcome="success">
            <begin-conversation nested="true"/>
            <render view-id="newContact.xhtml"/>
        </rule>
    </navigation>
</page>

<page view-id="page2.xhtml" conversation-required="true">
    <navigation from-action="#{contactManager.newContact}">
        <rule if-outcome="success">
            <begin-conversation nested="true"/>
            <render view-id="newContact.xhtml"/>
        </rule>
    </navigation>
</page>

<page view-id="newContact.xhtml" conversation-required="true">
    <navigation from-action="#{contactManager.saveNewContact}">
        <rule if-outcome="success">
            <!-- endAndRedirect to go back to either page1.xhtml or page2.xhtml depending on who called me -->
        </rule>
    </navigation>
</page>

Note that the following do not work:

<end-conversation/>
<redirect/>

Nor:

<end-conversation before-redirect="true"/>
<redirect/>

One way I can think of (sort of hackish) would be to use the if attribute of <rule> to invoke a backing bean method that does nothing but call Conversation.instance().endAndRedirect() and return true, but that breaks the if-outcome paradigm that I'm using. Any other suggestions?

Thanks, Jesse