Using PrettyFaces 3.3.1-SNAPSHOT - jsf-2

Question

i downloaded the 3.3.1-SNAPSHOT version to make generic url
regarding this post:
Pretty Faces: Generic URL mapping
my configuration is as follows:
my web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>myapp</display-name>
<listener>
<listener-class>
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
</listener-class>
</listener>
<listener>
<listener-class>
org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener
</listener-class>
</listener>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
classpath:META-INF/spring/applicationContext.xml
classpath:META-INF/spring/applicationSecurity.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>
<!-- Activating the Expression Language -->
<context-param>
<param-name>com.sun.faces.expressionFactory</param-name>
<param-value>com.sun.el.ExpressionFactoryImpl</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name>
<param-value>Development</param-value>
</context-param>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>users</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<context-param>
<description>State saving method: 'client' or 'server' (=default). See JSF Specification 2.5.2</description>
<param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
<param-value>server</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.localizationContext</param-name>
<param-value>resources.application</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<context-param>
<param-name>javax.faces.FACELETS_SKIP_COMMENTS</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
<!-- Spring Security -->
<filter>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<filter-class>
org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy
</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<filter>
<filter-name>Pretty Filter</filter-name>
<filter-class>com.ocpsoft.pretty.PrettyFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>Pretty Filter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>ERROR</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Resource Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.icesoft.faces.webapp.CompatResourceServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Resource Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/xmlhttp/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/faces/*</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>/icefaces/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
my pretty-config.xml:
<pretty-config xmlns="http://ocpsoft.com/prettyfaces/3.3.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://ocpsoft.com/prettyfaces/3.3.0
http://ocpsoft.com/xml/ns/prettyfaces/ocpsoft-pretty-faces-3.3.0.xsd">
<url-mapping id="generic">
<pattern value="/*" />
<view-id value="/faces/$1.xhtml" />
</url-mapping>
</pretty-config>
the following line keeps repeating in terminal:
at com.ocpsoft.pretty.faces.config.annotation.WebClassesFinder.processDirectory(WebClassesFinder.java:183)
at

Answer 1

Mika,
This is not something that PrettyFaces supports using the URL-mapping construct, you must instead use a custom rewrite rule:
<rewrite match="/(.*)" substitute="/faces/$1.xhtml" />
However, consider the impact of such a rule (similar to the one you defined above.) Of course there will be an infinite loop, because "*" also matches "/faces/XXX.xhtml". You need to make your match pattern more restrictive.
<rewrite match="^/(.*)(?<!\.xhtml)$" substitute="/faces/$1.xhtml" />
I also suggest you read up on Regular expressions, because "/*" is not a regular expression that will do what you seem to think it will do: http://ocpsoft.com/opensource/guide-to-regular-expressions-in-java-part-2/#lookaround
However, if you want a URL-rewriting tool which was designed specifically to perform tasks like this, then I suggest you look at OCPsoft Rewrite: http://ocpsoft.com/rewrite/, a much more powerful (but more difficult to use) URL-rewriting tool.
It allows you to do things like this:
.addRule(Join.path("/{page}")
.to("/pages/{page}.xhtml")
.when(Resource.exists("/pages/{page}.xhtml"))
.where("page").matches("(?!RES_NOT_FOUND)[^/]+"))