topic Re: Alfresco Compatible JSF Component Sets in Alfresco Archive

Alfresco Compatible JSF Component Sets

jbarrett — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:59:18 GMT

I know that Alfresco uses Mootools and I understand that it helps in webscript development. Because of this popular Ajaxified component sets like Richfaces will not work with Alfresco. Are there any open source Ajaxified component sets that work well with Alfresco?

Re: Alfresco Compatible JSF Component Sets

rivarola — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:21:37 GMT

Hello,

With a 10-lines patch in the WebClient we made Ajax4Jsf work with Alfresco, but experienced incompatibilities with RichFaces and Tomahawk. I am also interested in discovering other compatible libraries…

Re: Alfresco Compatible JSF Component Sets

jbarrett — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:13:40 GMT

Did that patch break anything else with Alfresco. I was able to use the Ajax4JSF but my web forms on the WCM side broke.

Could you please post you patch? I would like to give it a try.

Thanks,

Josh

Re: Alfresco Compatible JSF Component Sets

fhomasp — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:31:20 GMT

I'm interested in this as well.

I currently open a custom JSF core page using an ftl html link attached to a user space. But in order to make it look better some AJAX or richFaces stuff would be great.

I also need to embed the page(s) better, be able to navigate back and use specific user info in the custom page.
Anything that could help me on that one, eventhough it's kind of off topic here, is greatly appreciated.

Re: Alfresco Compatible JSF Component Sets

dhalupa — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:59:28 GMT

http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=8039

Kind regards,

Denis

Re: Alfresco Compatible JSF Component Sets

rivarola — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:06:46 GMT

Hello,

Here is the SVN patch we use :

Index: projects/web-client/source/java/org/alfresco/web/app/servlet/FacesHelper.java
===================================================================
— projects/web-client/source/java/org/alfresco/web/app/servlet/FacesHelper.java   (revision 6799)
+++ projects/web-client/source/java/org/alfresco/web/app/servlet/FacesHelper.java   (working copy)
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
  */
 package org.alfresco.web.app.servlet;
 
+import java.text.MessageFormat;
+
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import javax.faces.FactoryFinder;
@@ -40,6 +42,7 @@
 import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
 import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
 import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
 
 import org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException;
 import org.alfresco.web.bean.generator.IComponentGenerator;
@@ -115,8 +118,20 @@
       InnerFacesContext.setFacesContextAsCurrent(facesContext);
       
       // set a new viewRoot, otherwise context.getViewRoot returns null
+      if (request instanceof HttpServletRequest)
+      {
+         HttpServletRequest hsr = (HttpServletRequest) request;
+         String path = hsr.getServletPath();
+         if (!path.startsWith("/faces"))
+         {
+            if (logger.isDebugEnabled())
+            {
+               System.out.println(MessageFormat.format("No JSF request found, creates a JSF tree for path {0}", path));
+            }         
       UIViewRoot view = facesContext.getApplication().getViewHandler().createView(facesContext, "/jsp/close.jsp");
       facesContext.setViewRoot(view);
+         }
+      }
       
       return facesContext;
    }‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

We do not use WCM, so I can't tell you if there is a regression in Web forms or not. Please tell me if you find any issue with that. From our point of view it does not break anything.