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[jira] Created: (CLK-629) ExternalLink unexpected href behavior

ExternalLink unexpected href behavior
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                 Key: CLK-629
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLK-629
             Project: Click
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: extras
    Affects Versions: 2.1.0
            Reporter: Andrey Rybin
            Priority: Minor


All (most of) links in Click are "context-aware" ;-) i.e.   /link will be converted to /servletcontextpath/link

but 
ExternalLink is different.

It uses link (targetPath) "as is" without any modifications.

It is unexpected behavior.

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[jira] Commented: (CLK-629) ExternalLink unexpected href behavior

Posted by "Andrey Rybin (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLK-629?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12834974#action_12834974 ] 

Andrey Rybin commented on CLK-629:
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>Finn Bock 
>I wouldn't want any modification made to a targetPath like "http://www.google.com/". It should be used as href exactly as is. 

Don't be afraid ;-)

What I mean:
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http://click.apache.org/docs/user-guide/htmlsingle/click-book.html#redirect

"If the redirect location begins with a "/" character the redirect location will be prefixed with the web applications context path. For example if an application is deployed to the context "mycorp" calling setRedirect("/customer/details.htm")  will redirect the request to: "/mycorp/customer/details.htm".
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Same can apply to ExternalLink.

If target path == http://www.google.com/ or www.google.com/  or foobar then it will be used as is - without modifications.
But if target path starts with / then - it is of course on your server, 
but usually wrong: http://myserver/target_path 
instead of (right): http://myserver/servletcontextpath/target_path

You don't know usually servletcontextpath in your webApp (you should call getContextPath()) and i think you rarely need something in others webapps.


> ExternalLink unexpected href behavior
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CLK-629
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLK-629
>             Project: Click
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: extras
>    Affects Versions: 2.1.0
>            Reporter: Andrey Rybin
>            Priority: Minor
>
> All (most of) links in Click are "context-aware" ;-) i.e.   /link will be converted to /servletcontextpath/link
> but 
> ExternalLink is different.
> It uses link (targetPath) "as is" without any modifications.
> It is unexpected behavior.

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[jira] Commented: (CLK-629) ExternalLink unexpected href behavior

Posted by "Andrey Rybin (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLK-629?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12834941#action_12834941 ] 

Andrey Rybin commented on CLK-629:
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And also ExternalLink  doesn't have handy constructor:

    public ExternalLink(String name, String targetPath, String label) 

It looks just like mistake.




> ExternalLink unexpected href behavior
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CLK-629
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLK-629
>             Project: Click
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: extras
>    Affects Versions: 2.1.0
>            Reporter: Andrey Rybin
>            Priority: Minor
>
> All (most of) links in Click are "context-aware" ;-) i.e.   /link will be converted to /servletcontextpath/link
> but 
> ExternalLink is different.
> It uses link (targetPath) "as is" without any modifications.
> It is unexpected behavior.

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[jira] Updated: (CLK-629) ExternalLink unexpected href behavior

Posted by "Adrian A. (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLK-629?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Adrian A. updated CLK-629:
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    Issue Type: Sub-task  (was: Bug)
        Parent: CLK-543

> ExternalLink unexpected href behavior
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CLK-629
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLK-629
>             Project: Click
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: extras
>    Affects Versions: 2.1.0
>            Reporter: Andrey Rybin
>            Priority: Minor
>
> All (most of) links in Click are "context-aware" ;-) i.e.   /link will be converted to /servletcontextpath/link
> but 
> ExternalLink is different.
> It uses link (targetPath) "as is" without any modifications.
> It is unexpected behavior.

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[jira] Commented: (CLK-629) ExternalLink unexpected href behavior

Posted by "Malcolm Edgar (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
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Malcolm Edgar commented on CLK-629:
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+1 on another constructor

> ExternalLink unexpected href behavior
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CLK-629
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLK-629
>             Project: Click
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: extras
>    Affects Versions: 2.1.0
>            Reporter: Andrey Rybin
>            Priority: Minor
>
> All (most of) links in Click are "context-aware" ;-) i.e.   /link will be converted to /servletcontextpath/link
> but 
> ExternalLink is different.
> It uses link (targetPath) "as is" without any modifications.
> It is unexpected behavior.

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[jira] Commented: (CLK-629) ExternalLink unexpected href behavior

Posted by "Finn Bock (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
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Finn Bock commented on CLK-629:
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I wouldn't want any modification made to a targetPath like "http://www.google.com/". It should be used as href exactly as is.

Regarding the missing constructor, I agree. The 2 most common pieces of information on a ExternalLink is the href and the label so it would be nice to a constructor for that.

IMO the only surprising thing about ExternalLink is its location in the extras package.

> ExternalLink unexpected href behavior
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CLK-629
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLK-629
>             Project: Click
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: extras
>    Affects Versions: 2.1.0
>            Reporter: Andrey Rybin
>            Priority: Minor
>
> All (most of) links in Click are "context-aware" ;-) i.e.   /link will be converted to /servletcontextpath/link
> but 
> ExternalLink is different.
> It uses link (targetPath) "as is" without any modifications.
> It is unexpected behavior.

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