Redirecting to another page in Bean

[Eugene Abarquez]

Hi,

I wanted to do a redirect to another page in my bean. How do you do that in JSF? In JSP, I know it's something like this:

  request.getRequestDispatcher("redirect.jsp").forward(request,response);  

Some sample code will greatly help. Thanks in adcance.

[Richard Green]

setup a new navigation rule?

[Brian Smith]

Just to elaborate a little more, Navigation in JSF is handled by navigation rules that are defined in faces-config.xml.

They look something like this.

    <navigation-rule>
        <from-view-id>/Page1.jsp</from-view-id>
        <navigation-case>
            <from-outcome>outcome1</from-outcome>
            <to-view-id>/Page2.jsp</to-view-id>
            <redirect/>
        </navigation-case>   
        <navigation-case>
            <from-outcome>outcome2</from-outcome>
            <to-view-id>/Page3.jsp</to-view-id>
            <redirect/>
        </navigation-case>     
    </navigation-rule>  

outcome1 and outcome2 are Strings that are returned by a method that your commandButton, commandLink, etc (whatever causes a form submit) on your page are bound to via an action argument. If neither of the <from-outcome> conditions are met, the original page is redisplayed.

<h:commandButton value = "Some Text Here" action="#{pageBacking.someAction}"

[ October 04, 2006: Message edited by: Brian Smith ]

[Eugene Abarquez]

Thanks guys. But I was actually looking for something like this:

 FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().dispatch("redirect.jsp");   

I found it in older posts.