[CAUSEWAY-612] Return a URL from an action opens a new browser window

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: archetype-quickstart-wrj-1.4.0, viewer-wicket-1.4.0, core-1.4.0
• Component/s: Core, Viewer Wicket
• Assignee: Daniel Keir Haywood
• Reporter: Jeroen van der Wal
• Created: 28/Nov/13 12:27
• Updated: 11/Mar/14 07:39
• Resolved: 29/Nov/13 00:21

Description

Something like this:

Class Invoice {
...
public URL viewInvoice()

{ return new URL(String.format("http://reportserver/reports/invoice?invoiceNumber=%s", getInvoiceNumber)); }

...
}

Suggestions from Dan:

We could either implement this into the Wicket viewer, whereby it understoods that a returned URL means for it to be opened, or we could do it through a domain service (and the Wicket viewer knows nothing about it).

To try it with the former, take a look at StandaloneValuePanel is a good place to look; you will see I do some "special" processing for handling downloads of blobs and clobs there.

The answer here [x] shows one way to do a redirect (I think I might use a different API, probably equivalent though)

The gist of the latter is to define a service, eg "UrlOpenerService", with the implementatino in the estatio-webapp whereby it has access to all of Wicket framework.