Passing UTF-8 string to f:viewParam in JSF - jsf-2

I tried to pass UTF-8 String as f:viewParam value but value shown as garbage string, i added EncodingFilter in web.xml for setting UTF-8 to request and response as below
HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) servletResponse;
HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest) servletRequest;
request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
response.setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8");
and i defined facelet page in this style, but problem not resolved
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<f:metadata>
<f:viewParam name="q" value="#{searchBean.query}"/>
</f:metadata>
.....
</html>
I test this with Myfaces 2.0.5 and Mojarra 2.0.5

Apparently you're using a server configuration which interprets GET query strings using a different character encoding by default. For example Tomcat interprets them as ISO-8859-1 by default. You need to open Tomcat's /conf/server.xml and add URIEncoding attribute to the <Connector> element with a value of UTF-8.
<Connector ... URIEncoding="UTF-8">
That filter is by the way totally unnecessary. Remove it. JSF 2.x on Facelets defaults to UTF-8 at all levels already. Besides, the HttpServletRequest#setCharacterEncoding() doesn't affect GET requests, it affects POST requests only.
See also:
Tomcat HTTP connector configuration reference
Unicode - How to get the characters right?

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Doctype in JSF Mojarra

What Doctype should I use in JSF pages? The other day I'm trying to migrate from Mojarra 2.1.13 to 2.1.18 and it seems that the way the doc types are interpreted changed. In the root template I have following DOC TYPE
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
Do I also have to include this?
<?xml version="1.0"?>
In composites (that use this template) I used to have following doctype
<!DOCTYPE composite PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
But it seems that Mojarra 2.1.18 doesn't really support that. Also I didn't find this in any JSF 2.0 reference, this we used to use in JSF 1.2. If I have this doctype in composite page, it will render composite doctype instead of html that is in the template. In the result, the css styles are messed up.
So what's the correct usage of doctypes in JSF 2.0. Or is this issues with Mojarra? I didn't find any reference regarding this.
I created a JIRA issue for this: http://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES-2820
and it has been closed as this is the expected behavior.
"The composite page is where you actually use the template. So it is the outer most file where you specified a doc type. As such it defines the doc type that will be rendered."
Just specify the doctype in a template and nowhere else
I also migrated Jboss 7.1 to JBoss EAP 6.1
I found not very nice workaround - to insert on each page (not template):
<!DOCTYPE html>
e. g.:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" template="template.xhtml">
Is there any other way - for doctype to be read from master template?

JSF2 Reading Special Characters in GET Parameters

Here is my problem, can someone please help me....!
Present, i am migrating an application from struts to JSF2.
We have a user validation link, which sent to their email for verification,
after their successful registration.
For example:
http://testserv:5050/bjb/page/validateAccount.faces?Email=qwerty#testsession#1.com&Code=1272
The email address contains special characters, in old links which were sent to users.
In new application we are encoding them using URLEncoder.encode.
i think, this is nothing to do with UTF-8, But however
i set request, response, and JSF ExternalContext#setResponseCharacterEncoding to UTF-8.
tomcat is also configured for UTF-8.
validateAccount.xhtml
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets">
<h:head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
</h:head>
<h:body>
<h:form acceptcharset="UTF-8" name="verifyUserAccountForm" id="verifyUserAccountForm" prependId="false">
<f:metadata>
<f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{verifyUserBean.execute}"></f:event>
</f:metadata>
</h:form>
</h:body>
</html>
In java code,
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequestParameterMap().get(paramName);
Could not read the URL GET Request Parameters properly.
How should i solve this for existing links.
I have something in my mind like, i can write a javascript function in my xhtml page,
Which could be excuted on load, so using javascript function i can encode parameters.
But how to execute that javascript function before <f:event type="preRenderView"> call.
is there any better solution ?.
The query string parameter in the outgoing URL should be encoded as follows wherein the desired charset is explicitly mentioned:
String emailParam = URLEncoder.encode(email, "UTF-8");
String url = "http://testserv:5050/bjb/page/validateAccount.faces?Email=" + emailParam + "&Code=1272";
The Tomcat server should be confidured to decode the incoming URL using the very same charset:
<Context ... URIEncoding="UTF-8">
That's all you need to do with regard to encoding/decoding GET URLs. The HTML meta tag is irrelevant to this. The HTTP response encoding is irrelevant to this. The HTML form accept charset does more worse than good.
Please note that you edit the <Context> element in the right Tomcat configuration file. If you're for example managing Tomcat in Eclipse, you'd by default need to edit the one in Eclipse's Servers project, not in Tomcat's installation folder.
See also
Unicode - How to get the characters right?

JSF, Composite Component: method call with default attribute value as parameter

I am new to JSF and still learning. I tried searching for a solution to my specific problem described below but I could not find anything. If it because I was searching for the wrong things, please point me in the right direction, but hopefully it is something that hasn't been answered and an answer can benefit everyone.
The following example illustrates the problem I came across. The example is simplified to focus on the problem and to hide the complexities of the actual project in which the problem occurred.
Consider the following pages / classes:
/resources/test/custom.xhtml;
/test/CharsetProvider.java;
/test/CharsetHello.java;
/testWith.xhtml;
/testWithout.xhtml;
/resources/test/custom.xhtml
This is composite component with one attribute with a default value. The component simply takes the attribute value and passes it as an argument to the CDI bean described below in order obtain the model object used for output.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:cc="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<cc:interface>
<cc:attribute name="charset"
default="#{charsetProvider.defaultCharset}"
type="java.nio.charset.Charset" />
</cc:interface>
<cc:implementation>
<h:outputText value="#{charsetProvider.createCharsetHello(cc.attrs.charset).hello}"/>
</cc:implementation>
</html>
test/CharsetProvider.java
This is a CDI bean that simply contains a default value used throughout the application and has a method that creates an object used as the model for a component. The reason I use a CDI bean instead of a backing bean is because in my specific project the default value needs to be injected at runtime, but backing beans are not candidates for injection.
package test;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
import javax.inject.Named;
#Named
#SessionScoped
public class CharsetProvider {
private Charset defaultCharset;
#PostConstruct
protected void postConstruct() {
this.defaultCharset = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
}
public Charset getDefaultCharset() {
return defaultCharset;
}
public Charset getCharsetForName(String name) {
return Charset.forName(name);
}
public CharsetHello createCharsetHello(Charset cs) {
return new CharsetHello(cs);
}
}
test/CharsetHello.java
This is the "model" object. It simply converts "Hello world!" to a byte array and back using the given charset.
package test;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
public class CharsetHello {
private static final String HW = "Hello World!";
private final byte[] data;
private final Charset cs;
public CharsetHello(Charset cs) {
this.cs = cs;
this.data = CharsetHello.HW.getBytes(this.cs);
}
public String getHello() {
return new String(this.data, this.cs);
}
}
testWith.xhtml
This is a test page that uses the composite component defined above by specifying a value for the component's attribute. The page renders properly, i.e. "Hello World!" prints on the screen.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:test="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite/test">
<h:head>
<title>Test</title>
</h:head>
<h:body>
<test:custom charset="#{charsetProvider.getCharsetForName('UTF-16')}" />
</h:body>
</html>
testWithout.xhtml
This is a test page that does not pass a custom value to the component's attribute, intending to use the default value.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:test="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite/test">
<h:head>
<title>Test</title>
</h:head>
<h:body>
<test:custom />
</h:body>
</html>
The page above results in a JSF error page with the following message:
/resources/test/custom.xhtml #14,94 value="#{charsetProvider.createCharsetHello(cc.attrs.charset).hello}": Cannot convert UTF-8 of type class java.lang.String to class java.nio.charset.Charset
It seems that in the last case the default value is converted to a java.lang.String before being passed to the method.
First off, is this the expected behaviour and why?
If this is the expected behaviour, can you suggest a different implementation?
Thank you in advance!
This problem has exactly the same ground as this problem: FacesConverter forClass don't work with Composite Componet. The composite attribute value type is in Mojarra incorrectly been evaluated as java.lang.Object instead of the actual model type.
It's been reported as Mojarra issue 2568. It works in MyFaces 2.1.9.

Not getting 'Page Not Found' with JSF2.0

I'm trying with Javaee6 with GlassFish3.1.
I created a web project (with JSF2.0), with only one file, one.xhtml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<h:head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>ONE</title>
</h:head>
<h:body>
<h:form id="oneForm">
<h:commandButton id="oneButton" value="To Two" action="two" />
</h:form>
</h:body>
</html>
I've not added web.xml, as it is optional for javaee6.
I added faces-config.xml, so that default servlet mapping works. (with only top element)
<faces-config version="2.0" .../>
When I hit command-button on the page, I'm expecting 'Page Not Found' error. But the page just reloads. If I actually put file two.xhtml, it works correctly, but in it's absence, does not give error, which I'm expecting.
Am I missing something, some config?
Thanks in advance.
This is expected. JSF works with so-called navigation cases. If it doesn't find a matching case, it will just postback to the same view. This is specified in the JSF 2.0 specification (pick the one for evaluation).
7.4.2 Default NavigationHandler Algorithm
...
The default NavigationHandler implementation must behave as if it were performing the following algorithm (although optimized implementation techniques may be utilized):
If no navigation case is matched by a call to the handleNavigation() method, this is an indication that the current view should be redisplayed. As of JSF 2.0, a null outcome does not unconditionally cause all navigation rules to be
skipped.
...
However, when you set the JSF project stage to Development by a context parameter in web.xml,
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name>
<param-value>Development</param-value>
</context-param>
then clicking the button should then result in a development warning message in the postback,
Unable to find matching navigation case with from-view-id '/one.xhtml' for action 'two' with outcome 'two'
so that eventual developer mistakes are at least put in attention.

JSF2.0: EL are not resolved in a Composite Component taglib

I'm trying to create a custom composite component taglib in my office but i get a strange issue with EL. It seems expressions as #{cc.attrs.[var] } are already resolve as empty.
I try to create my taglib in a jar. In my jar i have my files ordered as following:
|_ /
.....|_ META-INF
..........|_ compo.taglib.xml
..........|_ resources
...............|_ components
....................|_ hello.xhtml
compo.taglib.xml contains:
<facelet-taglib xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facelettaglibrary_2_0.xsd"
version="2.0">
<namespace>http://www.example.com/jsf/compo</namespace>
<composite-library-name>compo</composite-library-name>
<tag>
<tag-name>hello</tag-name>
<source>./components/hello.xhtml</source>
</tag>
</facelet-taglib>
hello.xhtml contains:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:composite="http://java.sun.com/jsf/composite">
<composite:interface name="hello" displayName="hello">
<composite:attribute name="name" required="true" type="String"/>
</composite:interface>
<composite:implementation >
hello #{cc.attrs.name}!
</composite:implementation>
</html>
My web project contains in WEB-INF lib my taglib as a jar, jsf-impl.jar and jsf-api.jar (from Mojarra) my page is simply that:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:comp="http://www.example.com/jsf/compo" >
<body>
<comp:hello name="John"></comp:hello>
</body>
</html>
At rendering i see "hello !" but not "hello John!". Attributes values seems be lost somewhere. I try this sample on tomcat 6.0.29 and Websphere 7.
I made something wrong?
Have you tested your control in web application rather than from taglib (jar file)?
I can only guess but I think your attribute is not showing because you named it name. In some cases "name" attribute is beeing used by JSF (for example in f:attribute or f:param or even ui:param uses attribute name). Try to replace attribute name with oder word.
You need to look here and check if attribute name is available.
Yes this case appears also with other attributes.
I tried with the component in web application and issue doesn't appear.
I also tried with the component in a jar with default namespace: issue doesn't appear. I think there is bug when using composite component in a jar with custom namespace.

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