org.apache.myfaces.portlet

Interface DefaultViewSelector

public interface DefaultViewSelector

Imlementations of this interface allow a JSF application to specify which JSF view will be selected when the incoming request does not provide a View Id. The implementation can optionally return null to revert to the default View Id specified in portlet.xml.

Version:

$Revision: 169655 $ $Date: 2005-05-11 18:45:06 +0200 (Wed, 11 May 2005) $

Author:

Stan Silvert (latest modification by $Author: grantsmith $)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	selectViewId(javax.portlet.RenderRequest request, javax.portlet.RenderResponse response) This method allows a JSF application to specify which JSF view will be when the incoming request does not provide a view id.
void	setPortletContext(javax.portlet.PortletContext portletContext) This method will be called by the MyFacesGenericPortlet in order to give the selector an opportunity to store a reference to the PortletContext.

Method Detail

setPortletContext

void setPortletContext(javax.portlet.PortletContext portletContext)

This method will be called by the MyFacesGenericPortlet in order to give the selector an opportunity to store a reference to the PortletContext.

selectViewId

java.lang.String selectViewId(javax.portlet.RenderRequest request,
                            javax.portlet.RenderResponse response)
                              throws javax.portlet.PortletException

This method allows a JSF application to specify which JSF view will be when the incoming request does not provide a view id.

Parameters:

request - The RenderRequest

response - The RenderResponse

Returns:

a JSF View Id, or null if the selector wishes to revert to the default View Id specified in portlet.xml.

Throws:

javax.portlet.PortletException - if a View Id can not be determined because of some underlying error.