[PB-6] Opening new JSF windows from the portlet edit page causes the new window to fail with an error

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.3
• Component/s: jsf
• Environment: Windows XP, Tomcat 5.5.9, Jetspeed 2.0-M3, MyFaces 1.09
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ronald Holshausen
• Created: 06/Sep/05 20:35
• Updated: 16/Feb/10 20:36

Description

I have included a button on the porlet edit page that opens a new JSF window via window.open javascript. The window opens but failed to render with an 'Unsupported context type ' error.

Class file: org.apache.portals.bridges.jsf.FacesContextFactoryImpl
Line: 58

Looking at the code for FacesContextFactoryImpl, I see that it only accepts context objects of type PortletConfig, but the popup window recieves a ServletContext instead as it is running outside the portlet enviroment.

As a temporary work around, I modified FacesContextFactoryImpl based on the FacesContextFactoryImpl from myfaces, which checks for both a PortletConfig and ServletContext, and added myfaces as a dependancy. This compiles and works fine.