I like the general idea. But how would you toggle redirect=true|false when
returning an enum?
Cheers, B
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Kito Mann <kito.mann_at_virtua.com> wrote:
> One of the things I've never really liked about JSF are the string-based
> outcomes. As a matter of fact, I often use enums instead. What do people
> thing about providing a type-safe alternative like the one brought up on
> the MVC EG below?
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> From: Christian Kaltepoth <christian_at_kaltepoth.de>
> Date: Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:38 AM
> Subject: [jsr371-experts] Re: [mvc-spec users] Re: Sample application
> To: "<jsr371-experts_at_mvc-spec.java.net>" <jsr371-experts_at_mvc-spec.java.net
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>
> I agree with Rodrigo that we could think about ways that are more
> typesafe.
>
> I'm very impressed by what is possible with VRaptor4:
>
> http://www.vraptor.org/en/docs/ten-minute-guide/#create-form-redirecting
> http://www.vraptor.org/en/docs/view-and-ajax/#redirect-and-forward
>
> Perhaps someone from the VRaptor could describe it in more detail?
>
> Christian
>
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> 2015-04-17 16:05 GMT+02:00 Rodrigo Turini <rodrigo.turini_at_caelum.com.br>:
>
>> IMO it's not that nice depending on a String to do this job. A simple
>> typo will cause problems. Why not working in a type safe solution?
>>
>> just like result.redirectTo("/items") or even result.forwardTo("/items").
>>
>> What do you think? And Christian, great work! Thanks for doing this.
>>
>> Rodrigo Turini
>> Caelum | Ensino e Inovação
>> www.caelum.com.br
>>
>> 2015-04-17 10:56 GMT-03:00 Kito Mann <kito.mann_at_virtua.com>:
>>
>> (2) Redirect:
>>>>
>>>> /*
>>>> * An Ozark specific way of doing redirects. Should this go into
>>>> the spec?
>>>> * Redirecting here is fine as the method doesn't need to render any
>>>> * messages for the user which would get lost during the redirect.
>>>> */
>>>> return "redirect:/items";
>>>>
>>>> Yes, the intent was to propose this for the MVC spec. Seems pretty
>>>> convenient. Comments?
>>>>
>>>
>>> We should consider doing this like JSF, since there is precedence. JSF
>>> does it like this:
>>>
>>> return "/items?faces-redirect=true";
>>>
>>> so we could do:
>>>
>>> return "/items?mvc-redirect=true";
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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