Grails webflow url rewriting - grails

Question

Want to make the URLs SEO friendly when using grails webflow. It is quite limiting with the convention grails uses and hard to go around the way it's built.
For example, i have a flow called fooProcess in the controller called FooController, when i trigger the flow i would like the display: /foo/bar/test, instead of /foo/fooProcess?excecution=e1s2
class FooController {
def fooProcessFlow {
showFoo {
}
}
}
I tried using redirect and specify the uri but that's not supported, grails complains that the page isn't found
fooProcessFlow {
showFoo {
redirect(uri:"/foo/bar/test")
}
}
grails/foo/fooProcess.dispatch/externalRedirect:/foo/bar/test
Also, a redirect is an end state in a flow, if I only want to render the page, i have to use the render method and specify the view name or structure my views according to webflow convention.
fooProcessFlow {
showFoo {
render(view:"/foo/bar/test")
on "add".to "add"
}
}
The url will be in this case
/foo/fooProcessProcess?execution=e6s1
Anyone dealt with this case before ?
Did anyone use UrlRweriteFilter with webflows in grails
http://code.google.com/p/urlrewritefilter/
ken

Answer 1

You can use URLMappings Grails Plugin
See: http://grails.org/doc/latest/ref/Plug-ins/URL%20mappings.html
Edit this file: grails-app/conf/UrlMappings.groovy
Putting something like this inside:
class UrlMappings {
static mappings = {
"/foo/bar/test" (controller: "foo", action: "fooProcessFlow")
"/$controller/$action?/$ids?"{
constraints {
}
}
}
}