Re: [gatein-dev] Portal url creation with ampersands

On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Julien Viet wrote: > it's a good point, > > in the navigation controller framework it is possible to specify the kind of link that will be generated by the portal. > > so creating an URL would be like > > url.setMimeType(MimeType.XHTML); > url.toString(); > > or > > url.setMimeType(MimeType.PLAIN); > url.toString(); I was thinking that maybe this should be an extra parameter on PortletInvocationContext.encodeResourceURL like there's already a URLFormat in the renderURL method (though, the passed format seems to be actually ignored in GateIn Portal, see ExoPortletInvocationContext.renderURL and the comment I had added a while ago)… > > On Oct 28, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Trong Tran wrote: > >> it says : >> >> Note that replacing & with &amp; is only done when writing the URL in HTML, where "&" is a special character (along with "<" and ">"). When writing the same URL in a plain text email message or in the location bar of your browser, you would use "&" and not "&amp;". With HTML, the browser translates "&amp;" to "&" so the Web server would only see "&" and not "&amp;" in the query string of the request. >> >> I think this is a good example of reason why we have used '&' standalone before. >> >> Anyway, I agree that the '&amp;' would be used to generate an ULR by default and we could provide an option to be able to retrieve the another in such cases >> >> >> On 27 October 2010 21:23, Matt Wringe <mwringe(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> We are running into a bunch of problems with ajax requests when the >> portal is used to create the urls (this is especially seen when using >> wsrp as it needs to rewrite urls). The issue stems from the use of '&' >> instead of '&amp;', & alone is not allowed in xhtml/xml. >> >> I have already created a jira (with a patch) for this issue: >> https://jira.jboss.org/browse/GTNPORTAL-1597 >> >> Is there any objection or reasons why we can't use the proper '&amp;' >> instead? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gatein-dev mailing list >> gatein-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/gatein-dev >> >> >> >> -- >> Tran The Trong >> eXo Platform SEA >> _______________________________________________ >> gatein-dev mailing list >> gatein-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/gatein-dev > > _______________________________________________ > gatein-dev mailing list > gatein-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/gatein-dev Cordialement / Best, Chris == Principal Software Engineer / JBoss Enterprise Middleware Red Hat, Inc. Follow GateIn: http://blog.gatein.org / http://twitter.com/gatein Follow me: http://metacosm.codepuccino.com / http://twitter.com/metacosm