How to return to a MVC SimpleFormController on a WebFlow end-state

[UKCaveDiver]

Hello everybody,

first - many thanks for the really excellent job on MVC and WebFlow (and of course the other Spring parts ... )

I do have a serious problem with MVC/WebFlow integration. I was searching around a while, but I didn't find a solution. Here goes the brief problem description.

I do have a SimpleFormController, which prepares a FormBackingObject with some lists for the associated view (tiles, jsp, jstl)

  <bean name="/hotel.htm" class="HotelController">
    <property name="hotelService" ref="hotelService"/>
    <property name="authenticationService" ref="authenticationService"/>
  </bean>

From that view, I do start several flows - it's a kind of an navigational index page.

After finishing the flows, I want to return to the index.page, but with the given view-attribute of the end-state, only the JSP gets rendered, missing the FormBackingObject!

  <start-state idref="displayList"/>

  <view-state id="displayList" view="style">
    <entry-actions>
      <action bean="styleListAction" method="prepareList"/>
    </entry-actions>
    <transition on="ok" to="finish"/>
  </view-state>

  <end-state id="finish" view="hotel"/>

any help is really appreciated!

Thx in advance & kind regards from sunny Vienna

[Marten Deinum]

You want to prefix it with a externalRedirect prefix which issues a redirect instead of directly rendering a view. YOu might want to read chapter 2.6.1 and 2.6.5 of the reference guide.

[UKCaveDiver]

and a nice sunday anyway
K

[Marten Deinum]

Thanks Hope your problem is solved.

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UKCaveDiver. Do they have diveable caves in the UK?
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[UKCaveDiver]

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UKCaveDiver ... stands for UngerKlaus (=me) ... unfortunately not UnitedKingdom ...

yes they have diveable caves there, but dark, cold and murky -
haven't been there yet, but saw some video footage!

I do enjoy slowenia, florida and especially mexico much more!
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