Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum - xp:link and computed server-relative URL?

May 4, 2011, 7:55 AM

7 Posts

Re: xp:link and computed server-relative URL?

Are you sure <xp:link escape="true" text="Link" id="link1" value="/path/to/target/database.nsf"></xp:link> generates a correct url? Because I tested this on my machine, and I get an incorrect url (also with the current db still in the url)

I think if you specify an relative url, xpages will automatically assumes it points to the database you are in. Use full urls if you want to link to another db.

~Umberto Xanweman

May 4, 2011, 8:31 PM

47 Posts

Re: xp:link and computed server-relative URL?

sometimes I think I'm going mad, other times I know it is true...

you are correct, even the statically entered URL has the local db name prepended.

I really do need server-relative URLs as the Domino server is accessed via a reverse proxy, and trying to build a URL including protocol, server name and port via calls like context.getURL () only know the directly accessed value on the server.

I suppose I can forgo using xp:link and build my own using computed text. Just more work.

Rich

~Lily Kihipisonetsi

May 5, 2011, 7:30 AM

261 Posts

Re: xp:link and computed server-relative URL?

Pretty strange this doesn't work out of the box.

As a (kinda strange) workaround you could use the ../ syntax. Depending on the location (folder depth) of you source database you have to prepend a number of occurrences of that string. To calculate how many, you could use something like this:

var linkToServerRoot = @Repeat("../", database.getFilePath().split(java.io.File.separator).length);
var targetDb = "app/dbs-admin.nsf";

linkToServerRoot + targetDb;

Mark

~Umberto Xanweman

May 6, 2011, 3:53 PM

47 Posts

Re: xp:link and computed server-relative URL?

Thanks Mark, that's an interesting approach. I had half a passing thought to try something like that but I just plowed ahead and generated my HTML in a computed field. If I have to revisit this, I may switch to your solution as it means that items inside the link tag won't need to be hard coded.

Rich