forward method. Alternatively if its an action in the same controller
> Kerry: thanks! I didn't know about the additional vars. Apparently I
> should hit page reload more often (I have a firefox tab on the Grails
> dynamic functions/properties page open at all times these days).
>
> As for forward vs. redirect:
>
> The grails render method doesn't permit changing the controller, at
> least as far as is currently documented. Sometimes you'd like to have
> an action simulate accessing another controller. Also, sometimes you'd
> like to have an index action simulate accessing some other action with a
> specific id. Using a render approach would require having an additional
> method to obtain the object which is shared. It's doable, but certainly
> not ideal.
>
> The key difference between a forward and a redirect is that a redirect
> will cause a change in the browser address. A forward does not. This
> can be seen in the difference in the Java request.forward() versus
> response.sendRedirect() methods. While have the redirect functionality
> in grails, we don't have the equivalent of forward in grails, at least
> as far as I can tell. It's not something that would kill a project by
> any means, but something that makes the URLs less than ideal at times.
> This is noted in the following two articles:
>
>
http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=742>
http://www.javapractices.com/Topic181.cjp>
> I also tried the chain method, but that didn't seem to do the trick. I
> was thinking that since we have a dynamic redirect method in the
> controllers, it wouldn't be too far fetched to have a forward method.
>
> - D
>
> Jonathan Carlson wrote:
> > You were asking about a "forward" as well as "redirect". Doesn't render
> > do what you want?:
> >
> > render(view:'list', model:[ a : new A() ])
> >
> > - Jonathan
> >
> >
> >>>>
[hidden email] 2006-08-08 9:05:27 AM >>>
> >>>>
> > Jonathan,
> >
> > I was experimenting with having modules on a page that use AJAX to
> > obtain their results from various controllers. It works nicely, but I
> >
> > did think it would've been nice to be able to somehow include results
> > from various controllers (or something like that) for more
> > flexibility.
> >
> > Another few things that would be nice is to have in the controllers
> > are:
> > - a "forward" capability as well as a "redirect"
> > - interceptors that would run on (all?) sets of controllers, and
> > - action/controller variables in the interceptors
> >
> > Anyway, I should probably write up JIRA feature requests for these.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > - D
> >
> > Jonathan Carlson wrote:
> >
> >> I'm curious, are there Grails users who use Grails for heavy-duty
> >>
> > code
> >
> >> generation, or are most people just using the basic code generation
> >>
> > and
> >
> >> then manually modifying each and every page to fit their sites look
> >>
> > and
> >
> >> feel?
> >>
> >> Does (or will) Grails allow people to create their own templates so
> >> people can generate more complete applications the way they want
> >>
> > them?
> >
> >> Just wondering about the direction of Grails in this regard...
> >>
> >> - Jonathan
> >>
> >>
> >>
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