Question

Probably I am missing something here.

I have a template with a menu, with the options passign parameters to the JSF page:

<rich:menuItem label="Todos" action="#{mainMenuCtrl.listTickets}">
  <f:param name="baseLocation" value=""/>
  <f:param name="ticketStatus" value="Solicitado"/>
</rich:menuItem>
<rich:menuItem label="H. General" action="#{mainMenuCtrl.listTickets}">
  <f:param name="baseLocation" value="HGN"/>
  <f:param name="ticketStatus" value="Solicitado"/>
</rich:menuItem>

The controller just redirects to the page:

public String listTickets() {
  return "ticketsList.xhtml?faces-redirect=true&includeViewParams=true";
}

And ticketsList.xhtml has the metadata section:

<f:metadata>
  <f:viewParam name="baseLocation" value="#{ticketsListCtrl.baseLocation}" converter="es.caib.gesma.gesman.data.converter.LocationConverterByShortCode"/>
  <f:viewParam name="ticketStatus" value="#{ticketsListCtrl.ticketStatus}" converter="es.caib.gesma.gesman.data.converter.TicketStatusConverter"/>
  <f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{ticketsListCtrl.retrieveTickets()}" />  
</f:metadata>

The problem is that, when I am at another page (index.xhtml) that uses the same template, clicking in any of the menu items drives me ticketsList.xhtml but both params are empty.

../ticketsList.xhtml?baseLocation=&ticketStatus=

When I click the same item from ticketsList.xhtml, it shows the correct URL and from there anything works ok.

../ticketsList.xhtml?baseLocation=HGN&ticketStatus=Solicitado

Can anyone point to me why are the view-params missing when clicking from other pages?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The includeViewParams will include the view parameters of the current view, not of the target view.

You basically need to define the to-be-included view parameters as <f:viewParam> in index.xhtml as well, or to look for an alternate approach.