[Solved]: WO component actions in JSP

This does not seem to be an interesting topic for the WebObjects  
developer community - still, maybe it's of good use for someone. As  
you can see here

http://www.fastforward.ch/WOServletTest/WODA

I managed to integrate WO component actions into a JSP page. To  
achieve this, I had to build a new custom tag (<wo:componentAction / 
 >) which takes a wo coomponent action url as parameter an inserts  
its result into the JSP page.

The code is still very ugly - but for those interested I can send you  
the Xcode project (for the WO part) and Eclipse project (for the JSP  
part).

How it works:
A UrlRewrite filter is looking for /WebObjects* urls which contain a  
"rewritePath=..." parameter. It then rewrites a WO url like this
/WOServletTest/WebObjects/WOServletTest.woa/wo/zfctzpBisUOryU2nSrmZiM/ 
11.9?rewritePath=/WOCA
to the desired JSP url like so
/WOServletTest/WOCA?wopath=/WebObjects/WOServletTest.woa/wo/ 
zfctzpBisUOryU2nSrmZiM/11.9
The wopath path parameter then is handed over to a  
<wo:componentAction /> tag which takes care of the rest using an  
extended WOServletAdaptor.

Of course it would be even nicer to have a WO wrapper component which  
wraps the JSP page around the WO content... but hey, Rome was not  
built in a day. ;-)

-Will

On 28.07.2006, at 13:05, Will Scheidegger wrote:

> O.k., it's not quite working yet... but I think I'm getting there.  
> Answering my own question - the best way to go is :
>
> WORequest worequest = appInstance.createRequest("GET", path, "HTTP/ 
> 1.0", headers, null, someInfo);
> WOResponse appInstance.dispatchRequest(worequest);
>
> Will
>
> On 27.07.2006, at 23:08, Will Scheidegger wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to integrate WO components _including_ component  
>> actions into a JSP based CMS. I do this by adding path info to the  
>> WOHyperlink to get something like this:
>>
>> http://localhost:8080/magnoliaAuthor/WebObjects/CandyShop.woa/wo/ 
>> 2kQRnLlE41Nv0tRgGLRQjg/6.0.16.0.5?path=/en/products/candy/ 
>> details.html
>>
>> Then I use servlet filter to convert the URL above to
>>
>> http://localhost:8080/magnoliaAuthor/en/products/candy/ 
>> details.html?wopath=/WebObjects/CandyShop.woa/wo/ 
>> 2kQRnLlE41Nv0tRgGLRQjg/6.0.16.0.5
>>
>> Now I should write a custom tag to take the "wopath" parameter and  
>> fill in the WO content at its place. For this last step I could  
>> use some help. I have been digging around in the standard wo jsp  
>> tags but of course this is not documented to well. I should now  
>> how to use the WOSerlvetAdaptor to get the response for the URL "/ 
>> WebObjects/CandyShop.woa/wo/2kQRnLlE41Nv0tRgGLRQjg/ 
>> 6.0.16.0.5" (and the headers of course). Should I just start out  
>> with WOApplications.createRequest() and then follow through with  
>> the rest of the request-response loop (awake(),  
>> takeValuesFormRequest(), ...) or are there any convenience methods  
>> that would make life a bit easier?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Will
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