How to forward with URL parameters in Symfony 1.4 controller? - symfony1

I'm using Symfony 1.4 and i want to forward in my controller to another controller and action with some parameters.
After creating a "bike" with "bike/create" i want to forward to "bike/show/id/X" with the id i got from my new bike instance.
$forwardString = 'bike/show/id/'.$bike->id;
$this->forward($url);
This does not work :-(
Maybe you can help! :)
Greetings!

The method definition for forward is public function forward($module, $action) the request should be preserved and if theese are things not currently in the request you will have to add them first.
Also you might even need redirect instead so the url changes and where you just give it the url public function redirect($url, $statusCode = 302) so usage would be $this->redirect('bike/show?id=' . $bike->id);

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Returning to the source web page in Grails

I'm using grail 2.3.3, and am using the webRequest class, within a controller, to obtain action and controller values:
def currentAction = webRequest.actionName
def currentController = webRequest.controllerName
How do I find the 'source' controller & action that invoked this current action? This will enable me to return to that original web page should specific conditions fail in this action resulting in the need to go back. Is there a webRequest value I can use or some alternative way within grails of doing this?
Also it would be useful to know the complete list of parameters that exist
in the webRequest class?
Regards,
Mike
To get the calling web page I have used the command:
callingWebPage = request.getHeader("Referer")
There were no references to this in the params class sent over.

Asp.net MVC redirect Url to another controller view

I am very new to MVC and trying to migrate asp.net application to MVC. Basically I am trying to reuse the code where ever possible. In one case I was trying to use Redirect("SomeUrl") and it works pretty well with the view under same controller.
For eg., I added below piece of code in HomeController.cs
public ActionResult Login()
{
return Redirect("HomeMgr?Section=home&Type=Mgr");
}
Well, could someone suggest me if I can use Redirect(Url) to redirect to a view in another Controller? is there any format for Url something like
"~/controllername/Viewname?something=something&something=otherthing"
(I've read in other posts that I can achieve this using RedirectToAction, but I am trying not to change existing code which uses querystring values. )
Don't use Redirect to redirect to Actions in your app. There are several reasons for this. First, it's just simpler to user RedirectToAction as Alundra's answer provides. However, simpler is only part of the answer.
There's a problem with using Redirect. And that has to do with the way Routing works in MVC. In MVC, you can reach the same action via multiple different URL's. For instance, in a default MVC template, the following are all valid URL's.
http://yoursite/
http://yoursite/Home
http://yoursite/Home/Index
Now, what happens when you use Redirect? If you use the last url, it will work fine. You'll end up with the following url.
http://yoursite/Home/HomeMgr?Section=home&Type=Mgr
But if you're at any of the others, you have a problem...
http://yoursite/HomeMgr?Section=home&Type=Mgr
Oops... that won't work... That will be looking for a controller named HomeMgrController.
You get the same at the root as well.
Using RedirectToAction solves this problem, as it takes your routing into account and will figure out the correct url to redirect you to based on the Controller and Action you specify.
return RedirectToAction("ActionName", "ControllerName", new { Section=home,Type=Mgr ......Anythingelse you want to pass });

Composite C1 routes.MapPageRoute - Directing to a page

I have been adding some custom routes which are not working
I can get this MVC route working but the problem is it simple routes directly to the view rather than the page which contains the master layout etc.
routes.MapRoute("Job-Listing", "job-detail/{category}/{title}/{id}", new { controller = "JobSearchModule", action = "JobDetail" });
I tried routing to a page which existed like following. This didn't work and simple went to a page not found.
routes.MapPageRoute("Job-Listing", "job-detail/{category}/{title}/{id}", "~/job-seekers/job-search/job-detail");
I guessed that this might be because this is not a physical path and there is some other routing going off under the hood. So I tested this by adding a Route to a physical page like follows. (this route worked)
routes.MapPageRoute("jobDetail2Route", "job-detail/{category}/{title}/{id}", "~/Text.aspx");
This got my thinking that composite c1 might have a physical URL which the C1 routing maps to. I'm sure I have seen at some point something to do with a /Renderers/Page.aspx. Does anyone know if I could somehow route to a physical page in this way?
Thanks
David
OK so some further information.
I realized I could get the the URL using /Renderers/Page.aspx?pageId=d622ab3b-2d33-4330-9e6e-d94f1402bc80. This URL works fine so I attempted to add a new route to this URL like as follows...
routes.MapPageRoute("Job-Listing", "job-detail/{category}/{title}/{id}", "~/Renderers/Page.aspx?pageId=d622ab3b-2d33-4330-9e6e-d94f1402bc80");
Unfortunately this still didn't work. I got an error on the Renderers/Page.aspx
Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: pageUrlData
Any ideas?
Rather than using the internal representation of a page URL like ~/Renderers/Page.aspx?pageId=d622ab3b-2d33-4330-9e6e-d94f1402bc80 you should use the public representation like /my/page/url.
To get the public representation from the page id you could use a method like this:
using Composite.Data;
...
public string GetPageUrl( Guid pageId )
{
using (var c = new DataConnection())
{
PageNode p = c.SitemapNavigator.GetPageNodeById(pageId);
return p.Url;
}
}
This will give you the public URL of the page with the provided id. If you are running a website with different content languages this method will automatically fetch you the URL matching the language of the page your MVC Function is running on.
Should you have the need to explicitly change the language of this URL use the overload DataConnection(CultureInfo culture) instead of the default constructor.
With the above method in place you should be able to do this:
routes.MapPageRoute(
"Job-Listing",
"job-detail/{category}/{title}/{id}",
GetPageUrl(Guid.Parse("d622ab3b-2d33-4330-9e6e-d94f1402bc80"));

URL Mapping prefix in Grails

Recently, I'm trying to migrating my application from CakePHP to Grails. So far it's been a smooth sailing, everything I can do with CakePHP, I can do it with much less code in Grails. However, I have one question :
In CakePHP, there's an URL Prefix feature that enables you to give prefix to a certain action url, for example, if I have these actions in my controller :
PostController
admin_add
admin_edit
admin_delete
I can simply access it from the URL :
mysite/admin/post/add
mysite/admin/post/edit/1
mysite/admin/post/delete/2
instead of:
mysite/post/admin_add
mysite/post/admin_edit/1
mysite/post/admin_delete/2
Is there anyway to do this in Grails, or at least alternative of doing this?
Grails URL Mappings documentation doesn't help you in this particular case (amra, next time try it yourself and post an answer only if it's any help). Daniel's solution was close, but wouldn't work, because:
the action part must be in a closure when created dynamically
all named parameters excluding "controller", "action" and "id" are accessible via the params object
A solution could look like this:
"/admin/$controller/$adminAction?/$param?"{
action = { "admin_${params.adminAction}" }
}
The key is NOT to name the parameter as "action", because it seems to be directly mapped to an action and can not be overriden.
I also tried a dynamic solution with generic prefixes and it seems to work as well:
"/$prefix/$controller/$adminAction?/$param?"{
action = { "${params.prefix}_${params.adminAction}" }
}
I didn't test it, but try this:
"mysite/$prefix/$controller/$method/$id?"{
action = "${prefix}_${method}"
}
It constructs the action name from the prefix and the method.
Just take a look on grails URL Mappings documentation part

How do I set the protocol when using RedirectToAction?

The action I target needs https. I already have a filter in place that redirects to https if a request comes in via http, but I would prefer to send the request via https right from the start.
EDIT
There was an answer from Darin (updated now to something else ) where he asked why I call this first action by http anyway. He had a good point there and I just updated a couple of links. This was the easiest and securest way to fix my problem.
Once I find the time to evaluate çağdaş answer I will use this as the correct answer, because I guess thats of interest for some other people (...including me in the future)
I don't know if you must use RedirectToAction but with a UrlHelper and the controller's Redirect method you can do this :
public ActionResult SomeAction() {
UrlHelper u = new UrlHelper(this.ControllerContext.RequestContext);
return Redirect(u.Action("actionName", "controllerName", null, "https"));
}
ASP.NET MVC 3 includes the RequireHttpsAttribute which may be of assistance.

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