Wicket continueToOriginalDestination to pass parameters to original page - wicket

When Component:continueToOriginalDestination() is called, is there a way to pass parameters to the original destination Wicket redirects to?

No. At the moment (Wicket 6.8.0) there is no such API.
The collected parameters during the interception will be used.

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Redirecting requests form a catch-all controller in Zend Application without looping forever

There are plenty of related posts to what I'm asking, but after some lengthy searches couldn't quite find what I was looking for, my apologies if it exists somewhere.
My goal -- ALL requests to my Zend App must go through a preDispatch plugin, then pass to a custom Auth controller that will decide whether existing auth credentials are sufficient for the requested operation. 'Sufficient' depends on the logic of the app, hence why I want to do this at the controller+model level. If they suffice, they send the original request along to the specified controller+action, if not they default to a 'get lost' action.
At present I'm using an auth custom plugin set in the preDispatch to simply check for POST'ed auth credentials (if we are logging in), then in all cases the plugin stores the original request and redirects everyone (auth'd or not) to my auth controller, a-la:
$request->setModuleName('default')
->setControllerName('auth')
->setActionName('check')
->setParam('oreq',$request->getParams());
My problem/question is that within my auth->check action, how should I perform the redirect after a decision is made? If I use:
$this->_helper->redirector($or['action'], $oreq['controller']);
then I obviously get an infinite loop as these requests pass through the preDispatch plugin again. Sure I could pass something with the redirect so that the Auth plugin ignores such requests, but this is clearly a security hole. I had thought about maybe generating and storing an md5 hash, storing it to session and passing that as an escape param, but that seems a little sketchy.
Any better ideas out there? Perhaps a redirect method that does not go through the standard predispatch routine in Zend App? Thanks in advance!
This is not how it is done usually in Zend Framework. Not all requests go to a common place and gets redirected to the original requested place authentication.
For access control, use Zend_Acl. Through that, you could easily determine whether the current user has the necessary auth to access the content, else redirect to 'get lost' action.
If you are still adamant on using your technique, use _forward method instead of redirect method.
Since _forward is an internal redirect, you could pass additional arguments and check that in preDispath to avoid a loop.
$this->_forward($action, $controller, $module, $params)

An explanation of the Zend Redirector Action Helper

Is there a comprehensive explanation of how the Zend Redirector Action Helper works? I've read the reference guide, but am still not 100% clear. For example:
Apparently the goToSimple() is more like a forward(), than a redirect. Does this mean that it won't send a redirect message back to the browser?
If I want to send a redirect message back to the browser, which Redirector method should I be using?
Is there a way to get the forward() type of behaviour, without re-executing the init() method of Action Helpers?
This problem cropped up when I was implementing an ACL. I have an ACL Action Helper and its init() method adds the role 'current'. When I use the redirector's goToSimple() I get an error saying that the role is already registered. I can use if (!$acl->hasRole('current')) however I think it would be preferable not to be re-executing the helper's init() in the first place.
Not too comprehensive just a few quick notes about the redirector.
The redirector does a little bit more than a regular PHP redirect which you would use with header('Location: www.domain.com/new/location') in your script--following by an exit().
If you look at Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Redirector it ultimately does exactly the same; if $_exit==true (default) everything leads to redirectAndExit() which calls header() and ends with an exit() call. However it terminates the framework properly, mainly the session if any.
The redirector does not forward internally it sends a default 302 code back unless you have set another code with setCode().
Methods gotoRoute() and gotoSimple() assemble the destination URL for you and call redirectAndExit() but only if $_exit==true. Or you can use their brethren gotoRouteAndExit() and gotoSimpleAndExit() which will exit immediately. The gotoSimple methods pass on to setGotoSimple which uses some methods to assemble the URL for you.
In your case I can only assume that the setGotoSimple method and one of the methods in it call the destination controller and fire up the init() method; however, only for checking but not forwarding.

can i send data to a javascript function on the server iphone

I i'm wondering if it is possible to call a javascript function from my application. The js function is on the server. Let's say i have a some inputs in the app. Then i have this submit button which calls the IBAction, from the IBAction i want to call:
function mySubmit(){
document.getElementById("myForm").submit();
}
and pass it the data the user entered and then get back a response (in my app) not in the server
Is this possible to do? if so, can you provide some useful links?
Thanks in advance and have a nice saturday ;)
The js function is on the server
Are you sure this is your case? Don't you mean that your js submits a form that is itself treated on the server side?
Javascript is normally a client-side scripting language, which is executed on client-side, contrary to e.g. PHP which is only executed server-side.
[EDIT] (As stated by #Dr.Dredel in the comments, as there exists server-side javascript, but these usages are not yet very common and I don't think it corresponds to your context)
If you need to call a javascript function from an already loaded HTML page in a WebView, you can simply use the UIWebView's stringByEvaluatingJavascriptFromString:. You can pass a string representing javascript code to this function, so you can build a string that represent a function call with string or int arguments for example without any problem.
But if you intend to load your HTML page just to call a javascript fonction which in turn submit a form that sends the form's data to your server… This is clearly the wrong way!
You should instead considering performing the NSURLRequest to your server directly in Objective-C (maybe using ASIHTTPRequest to perform a POST request and easily set the values for each keys of the form you intend to send). In addition, doing this directly in ObjC will avoid loading the HTML page for nothing and rely on the js script, and will allow you to directly get the response in the delegate method.

Classic ASP form doesn't post on page refresh

I have an ASP page that takes two arguments on the querystring. On the page is a form that posts back to itself.
If I do the form post once, and then try to refresh the page, it doesn't repost the form. It loads the page as though it were loading for the first time, missing the querystring values.
Is there a way to ALWAYS force a repost when I refresh a page that is the result of a FORM post?
It sounds like the problem you're having is loss of some essential parameters to your page when posting. In ASP there are two primary methods of passing parameters, in the url string via GET or from a form POST. The former passes you values in the QueryString dictionary while the latter gives them to you in the Form dictionary. Fortunately for you it is possible to accept a parameter that exists in EITHER dictionary by looking to Request object:
Request["a"] will find a regardless of being in Request.QueryString["a"] or Request.Form["a"].
This will help you in your current dilemma because you can simply write your querystring parameters to your Form on initial load of the page as <input type="hidden" fields. On subsequent posts your Request["a"] search for your parameters will find them regardless of being passed in the URL (on initial load) or via post on subsequent calls.
The problem was that I was going into the Firefox address bar and pressing Enter. This caused the URL to reload (and of course it didn't have the querystring after it reposted). So -- lesson is to do a check of the incoming vars and form vars to see if the page has been manually refreshed I suppose...
You could still maintain the submitted values in this situation.
What you would need to do is log the most recent request in either a Cookie, Session or data/file store, and on each request, check to see if the request was handled before you remove the data.
Since what you were after was the querystring it could just be something like this:
Response.Cookies("tempdata")("querystring") = Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING")
Response.Cookies("tempdata")("querystring_handled") = false
then when you are done with that request you can clear the cookie value or set the querystring_handled = true.
There are probably situations where this could cause some conflicts, but just so you know, it is still going to be possible for you to remember the request once it is received by the server.
Which action does the form use: GET or POST? Normally, a form would use the POST action, but in this case, if you refresh the page with the posted form, you will not get anything in query string, because query string only gets passed via the GET action. Assuming that this issue is not caused by page caching, it seems to me like it works as designed (if the form POSTs data). Just make sure that you process the form variables if the query string is missing.

MVC 2.0 Post Form to action instead of redirect to action

I am using T4MVC to redirect to another action return RedirectToAction(MVC.MyController.MyAction());.
In result it is doing get request.
Is there any way to make post request from controller. I want to keep all the same but only make post instead get. I cant find any methods for that. I found one post helper here http://geekswithblogs.net/rakker/archive/2006/04/21/76044.aspx but i cant pass any values i need using this post helper. I was trying to pass values through TempData but they are not coming when i using this helper. May be some one have any ideas?
The reason i want to do this because when user come from one controller to another and then if user click update or just click enter in browser address bar, page will break.
Should i use session for that reason?
A RedirectToAction will always perform a GET, never a POST (it returns a HTTP 302 to the browser, which will then issue a GET request).
To persist data across the redirect, if it is data that can be easily represented as a string and stored in the query string, then you can just add it to the route values of the redirect.
e.g.
return RedirectToAction("Search", new { searchString = "whatever" });
If it is a complex type, then you will need to store it in TempData. A number of other questions on StackOverflow (such as this one) give details on how.
If repeatedly storing to and reading from TempData across your application offends your code-sense, then you can encapsulate this by using the PassParametersDuringRedirect attribute and generic RedirectToAction available in the MvcContrib project. Some details on this technique are available here.
only way of doing post is by having a form and doing submit on that form, either with a submit button or with javascript, any info you want passed to that action must be in that form and you will find everything posted in FormCollection(hope I spelled it right).