[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (JBPORTAL-2356) It is impossible to use html forms in portlets or js to build http request

[Bernard de Terwangne (JIRA)]

It is impossible to use html forms in portlets or js to build http request
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                 Key: JBPORTAL-2356
                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBPORTAL-2356
             Project: JBoss Portal
          Issue Type: Bug
      Security Level: Public (Everyone can see)
          Components: Portal Portlet
    Affects Versions: Portlet-2.0.1
         Environment: Linux, Java 5, Tomcat, JBoss Portlet Container 2.0
            Reporter: Bernard de Terwangne


JBoss Portlet container conforms to the spec so well that it becomes unusable. It is impossible to query the end-user for a value and pass that value in processAction or serveResource calls. Let's say you write this in your JSP page :

<form action="<portlet:actionURL><portlet:param name='q' value='yop'/></portlet:actionURL">
<input name="q" type="text/>
<input type="submit"/>
</form>

and in the Java code

	public void processAction(ActionRequest req, ActionResponse res)
			throws IOException, PortletException {
		System.out.println(req.getParameter("q");
        }

The printed value will allways be "yop" (the value placed in the portlet:param tag. There is no way to retrieve the value actually typed by the end user.

This is due to the fact JBoss Portlet container mangles in Base64 the parameters from <portlet:param> and disregards parameters appended by the browser's form implementation. Same thing with <resourceURL>. There is no way to pass user input to the portlet's Java code.


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