Use GET request for form submission in JSF 2.0

Question

Is there a way to submit a form and have the URL include the parameters, that is submit as a GET request.. rather than POST?

form.jsf/?firstName=John&lastName=Doe

I thought would work (instead of the normal , however it doesn't seem to grab the form data.. any ideas?

Answer 1

You can change the action of the form to be get instead of post. This will add the form values to the qs instead of posting them.

Answer 2

yes you can with preRenderViewEvent you can have something like this in view

 <f:metadata>
    <f:viewParam name="team" value="#{teamEditView.team}"/>
 </f:metadata>
 <f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{teamEditView.setupEditPage}"/> 

where you can pas view params and invoke the listener and fetch data acording to params in that listener method.

Answer 3

Replace <h:form> by <form> and use either @ManagedProperty in the model side or <f:viewParam> in the view side to set those parameters as bean properties.