Flexible URLs

Submitted by toby78 on Tue, 2008-07-08 12:55.Feature Requests

It would be really good if there was a way to overwrite/replace the URL encoding and decoding behaviour...

At the moment it looks like that:

/search.do?indexName=freedb&q=some+keywords

I made a RewriteRule like that:

^/([a-z_]+)-([0-9]+).html$
/search.do?indexName=test&templateName=freedb&q=$1&start=$2

so the new URL should be:

/some_keywords_blablabla-23.html

which should be like:

/search.do?indexName=freedb&q=some_keywords_blablabla&start=690

However I need to do the following now:

1. replace the "_" characters before it is processed the the search action.

2. Do a: start = ($page-1)*30 for the correct page number.

Please let me know how this could be done!

Thanks!

Submitted by will on Tue, 2008-07-08 13:14.

Looks like you need a URL Rewrite solution for a J2EE application.

This should be what you need:

 http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/

Basically it's a filter in front of DBSight, and you should be able to do any tricks you want.

Submitted by toby78 on Tue, 2008-07-08 13:54.

Yes, that's what I am using.

BUT:

The queries needs to be decoded before the SearchAction reads the q-parameter....(and also the page-number...instead of the start parameter).

Otherwise "some_query" would be passed instead of "some query"

Submitted by will on Tue, 2008-07-08 15:05.

May have to use the <run> tag in the url rewrite configuration.

I think the easiest way would be using your own servlet filter to resolve this more complicated case.

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