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Created by Fang on March 30, 2012 15:04:04
Last update: March 30, 2012 15:04:04
Spring MVC 3.1 can send either JSON or HTML response on the same URL, depending on the type of response requested. With this mechanism, a page can be sent when directly requested from a link, but a JSON response can be sent in response to an AJAX request. This is the controller code:
package com.example; import java.util.Map; ... In the above example, JSON response will be sent when the HTTP request contains header "Accept: application/json". HTML response will be sent then the header is "Accept: */*", or "Accept: text/html", or anything else. You can add a limitation that the HTML response does not produce "application/json". But then the question is which response will be sent when the HTTP header is "Accept: */*"? Both methods will...
Created by Fang on March 30, 2012 10:07:25
Last update: March 30, 2012 10:09:08
After a user resets a password, I want to force the user to change the password before she gets access to secured content. This is usually done with a servlet filter. But with Spring MVC, you can also use a HandlerInterceptor . According to Spring JavaDoc: HandlerInterceptor is basically similar to a Servlet 2.3 Filter, but in contrast to the latter it just allows custom pre-processing with the option of prohibiting the execution of the handler itself, and custom post-processing. Filters are more powerful, for example they allow for exchanging the request and response objects that are handed down the chain. Note that a filter gets configured in web.xml, a HandlerInterceptor in the application context. As a basic guideline, fine-grained handler-related preprocessing tasks are candidates...
Created by Fang on January 28, 2012 13:24:09
Last update: January 28, 2012 13:31:22
This is a simple JSP custom tags library with tag body. Just like the JSF counterpart , it splits a string and repeats the body for each word, i.e., with this markup:
<%@ taglib uri="http://custom.tag.com/demo" prefix...
output:
<html>
<body>
<p>Hello Tigger!</p>
<p>H...
With Maven, this is the directory structure:
./src
./src/main
./src/main/resources
./s...
There are three files to write:
pom.xml :
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"...
src/main/java/tagdemo/IterateTag.java :
package tagdemo;
import java.io.IOException...
src/main/resources/META-INF/demotag.tld :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DO...
Build with:
mvn clean install
To use it as a dependency in other Maven projects:
<dependency>
<groupId>tag-demo</groupId>
...
Created by zhidao on January 25, 2012 16:07:29
Last update: January 25, 2012 16:07:29
A JSON response is auto-magically returned when you add the @ResponseBody annotation to the return value of a @RequestMapping annotated method:
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
...
For magic to happen, you must:
Add annotation-driven to the org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet config xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans x...
Put Jackson jar files on CLASSPATH (i.e., under WEB-INF/lib ), which includes jackson-core-asl-1.6.4.jar and jackson-mapper-asl-1.6.4.jar .
Created by Dr. Xi on January 17, 2012 11:58:16
Last update: January 17, 2012 11:58:16
Steps to configure JavaMail resource for Tomcat 6 & 7:
Install JavaMail jar: download the JavaMail API , unzip the archive and copy mail.jar to $CATALINA_HOME/lib .
Add JavaMail resource to $CATALINA_BASE/conf/context.xml :
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Context>
.
...
Add resource-ref for the JavaMail resource to your webapp WEB-INF/web.xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app...
Use the JavaMail resource in your webapp:
// import javax.naming.*;
// import javax.mail....
Created by Fang on December 06, 2011 19:03:25
Last update: December 07, 2011 08:54:11
Our custom tag, as implemented in the previous note , is broken when a template is used.
Create a template file ( home-template.xhtml ):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Stric...
and a test page that uses it ( home.xhtml ):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ui:comp...
Then request the page with URL: http://localhost:8080/facelet-demo/home.jsf?name=Jack .
You'll find that our hello tag works inside ui:repeat but fails to get the value defined by ui:param ! What's the problem? Our hello tag implementation evaluated the EL with the wrong EL context!
This is the corrected implementation:
package com.example;
import java.io.IOExcep...
Created by Fang on November 10, 2011 13:19:13
Last update: December 01, 2011 19:10:43
You can add custom implicit variables to JSF pages by using a custom EL resolver, in two simple steps: Write an ELResolver class to resolve the variable Add the ELResolver to faces-config.xml Starting from the Maven Hello World example: Add faces API and EL dependencies to pom.xml :
<dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>o... Add a simple greeter class ( src/main/java/com/example/Greeter.java ): package com.example; public class Greeter {... Add our custom EL resolver ( src/main/java/com/example/ELResolver.java ): package com.example; import java.util.Itera... Add the custom EL resolver to src/main/resources/META-INF/faces-config.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <faces-c... Build JAR with mvn package Drop the JAR into WEB-INF/lib of a webapp and test the new EL with: <h:outputText value="#{Greeter.sayHi('Mike')}"/> Fixed: the setValue method used to throw an exception, which is wrong. @Override public void setValue(ELContext ctx, O......
Created by nogeek on November 03, 2010 20:52:49
Last update: November 23, 2011 08:54:44
My problem is simple: in my XML data, a timestamp is provided as a long integer (number of milliseconds since the "the epoch"). When I do XSLT, I want to display it as a readable string, such as "Mon Nov 01 18:08:48 CDT 2010". After hours of struggle, I found: It's not so easy to get the job done with JDK 1.6 There are tons of garbage on the web in this space (suggestions, code snippets that simply don't work) Simple Xalan extension functions was the only resource that's somewhat informative. Even there some of the examples don't work. Below is a list of what worked and what didn't. This works:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="h... This does not (providing long value to Date constructor): <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="h......
Created by Fang on November 22, 2011 10:40:16
Last update: November 22, 2011 10:40:16
This is an example that uses tag handler, UI component and renderer together to support a custom taglib. The main purpose is to show how these components play together.
The tag renders
<ui:param name="extra" value="el interpreted"/>
...
as
<h3>my:foreach</h3>
<ul class="css class" extra...
These are the files:
The tag handler ( src/main/java/com/example/ForeachTagHandler.java ):
package com.example;
import java.util.Map;
...
The UI component ( src/main/java/com/example/UIForeach.java ):
package com.example;
import java.io.IOExcep...
The renderer ( src/main/java/com/example/ForeachRenderer.java ):
package com.example;
import java.io.IOExcep...
Faces config ( src/main/resources/META-INF/faces-config.xml ):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-c...
Taglib config ( src/main/resources/META-INF/foreach.taglib.xml ):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<facelet...
Created by Fang on November 21, 2011 15:57:49
Last update: November 22, 2011 09:51:26
The improved custom taglib works with existing facelet ui taglibs. For example:
<ui:param name="theName" value="John"/> <my:hel... produces the expected output. However, a problem exists with the ui:repeat tag: <h3>With ui:repeat</h3> <ui:repeat var="theName... When tested with a URL like: http://localhost:8080/facelet-demo/?name=Zack&name... the raw EL prints out the correct names, but my custom tag substitutes empty string for theName2 ! In theory, the response is rendered in the Render Response phase, way after the Apply Request Values phase, actual values should be available to EL. The answer to this anomaly turned out to be very deep ! Yes, right there in the code! I would consider this a bug in facelets implementation, but the JSF spec did not tell what the expected behavior should be. In my custom...
