DisplayTag Sort and Pagination links(url) generated is too long

Question

When using displaytag the URL it's generating for paging and sorting is too long for IE.

Is there a way around this without resorting to external paging and sorting?

Cheers.

Answer 1

Hopefully this will help someone. And if there is another way, then let me know.

The way I have got round this is by excluding all parameters on the display table tag.

<display:table excludedParams="*"> ... </display:table>

Which means the url doesn't fill up with parameters.

Great, but how do you keep a handle on the list of objects that we're using?

I did this by setting an attribute on the context's request. And as I'm using the Stripes framework I did this by using the ActionBeanContext.

public class SchemeActionBeanContext extends ActionBeanContext {
    public void setThings(List<Things> things) {    
        getRequest().getSession().setAttribute("stuff", things);
    }

    public List<Things> getThings() {
        return (List<Things>)getRequest().getSession().getAttribute("stuff");
    }

And then you can set and get them throughout the lifecycle of the page/request.