Send a flow to a page outside of its scope

[ruipacheco]

Hi all

I am creating a flow, reasonably complex. In one given situation, if the user cancels the action, I want to sent him to a page outside the flow, ie, a page that is not included in the xml structure. How can I send him there without including that page in the flow?

[Colin Yates]

Why can't you just have an end-state which defines that view?

[Tom Hicks]

OK, but I think there's a good question here.

How does one end a flow (so that it cleans up) and
leave for another page?

What I need to do is to terminate the flow and
jump out to a more traditional Spring Controller.
I would like to terminate the flow gracefully so
that any resources it uses are cleaned up.

Is this possible and how do I do it? Thanks,
-tom

[klr8]

To correctly terminate a flow and jump to another page (e.g. a classic Spring MVC controller), just use an end state:

<end-state id="endCancel" view="..."/>

Note that the view attribute can take quite a few different forms, so you can make all of this pretty flexible. E.g.:
view="viewName" -> classic case
view="redirect:/url" -> redirect to some url
Also remember that the view attribute supports expressions, so you can have stuff like:
view="redirect:${flowScope.callerUrl}"
view="redirect:/details.do?id=${flowScope.formObject.id}"

Erwin

[Tom Hicks]

Thanks Erwin!

That's exactly what I was looking for.
-tom

[sai kalyan]

my question is how to ask a question in this community?