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ice:outputMedia not rerendering in Firefox and IExplorer

I need the reproduce a MP3 from an URL. So, in my page use this:

<ice:outputMedia binding="#{boardBean.opMedia}" id="opMedia"/>
<ice:commandButton image="#{icon.imagen}" action="#{boardBean.selectIcon(icon)}">
    <f:ajax render="opMedia"/>
</ice:commandButton>

Then, in the backing bean "BoardBean" (is @Viewscoped) 

this.opMedia.setSource(uri.toString());

The idea is when an icon is selected, the url with a sound is formed and is set as source of the outputMedia.

In Google chrome works good. In every click the ice:outputMedia component is rerendered so the mp3 is reproduced. But in Firefox and IExplorer don't. I does not rerender the component with the new property, so the Mp3 is not played

Any ideas why? Is there a "more standard" way to do this that works in all browsers?

Solution

  • I found the problem. The uri.toString() method is returning a String that has special characters as '&'. This character is replaced by &amp;. Chrome is able to decode this to the correct character and retrieve the URL, but IE and Firefox can't.

    Now , the problem will be to find a solution to this encode/decode problem. But this will be in another thread.