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Modify JSF h:link href result

I'm curious about the possibility to alter hrefattributes of all generated links.

Let's assume I have a web page which looks something like this:

<div>
  <h:link outcome="/foo.xhtml" value="a link" />
  ...
  <h:link outcome="/bar.xhtml" value="another link" />
</div>

The resulting output would be something like this:

<div>
  <a href="/foo.jsf">a link</a>
  ...
  <a href="/bar.jsf">another link</a>
</div>

I'm now trying to alter the URL generated as href attribute within the generated content and let's say add a directory to all the generated links (depending on their content), so that I get the output

<div>
  <a href="/a-new-location/foo.jsf">a link</a>
  ...
  <a href="/another-new-location/bar.jsf">another link</a>
</div>

Is there a quick and easy way to achieve this or do I have to implement the component and the renderer completely on my own and copy the logics used by the standard implementation?

Solution

  • just a quick note to let you know that I solved the problem by replacing the standard ViewHandler with my own ViewHandler implementation that overrides the getBookmarkableURL method and performs the replacement upon the URL generated by the parent ViewHandler.