Re: Apple, any slight update or estimation on WO 5.3.1, Please ??

Subject: Re: Apple, any slight update or estimation on WO 5.3.1, Please ??
From: Dev WO <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:05:56 +0200

Gosh, I hope *my* business is not so easy to break.

Did I say I'm a WO beginner;) It's mainly because it use to work and it's not acceptable to have to tweak something like this. I'm sure Apple doesn't like when its employees waste their time on something that use to work and was broken by the manufacturer...So do I;)

If WOHyperlink would use context.directActionURLForActionNamed() you would just need to provide context class that overrode that method with

return super. directActionURLForActionNamed().replaceAll("&", "&");
but it doesn't so you need to use sth like this in your app:
public static PatchedHyperLink extends com.webobjects.appserver._private. WOHyperlink { public PatchedHyperLink(String arg0, NSDictionary arg1, WOElement arg2) { super(arg0, arg1, arg2); }

public void appendToResponse(WOResponse response, WOContext context) { WOResponse otherResponse = new WOResponse(); super.appendToResponse(otherResponse, context); String string = otherResponse.contentString(); // replace href="..&.." with href="..&..." response.appendContentString(string); }
}
Application() {
    _NSUtilities.setClassForName(PathedLink.class, "WOHyperlink");
}
I just typed this in the mail, so you may need to do some work still...

I'll try that in a couple days to see if I can make it work:) Thanks for the pointer though. But I'd really appreciate Apple's to correct their fault...Between Tiger server and WO 5.3 it looks like Apple isn't "entreprise grade"...

And of course a bug report wouldn't hurt (apart from my own in 2001 about HTML 4 compliance).

Already done:)

Cheers, Anjo


Thanks Anjo

Xavier

Am 14.09.2005 um 10:19 schrieb Dev WO:
Hi David,
Hi,
well, you are requesting XHTML compliance.
it's also HTML conformance, it's really old:)
This is not supported by WebObjects 5.3 and was not by WebObjects 5.2.x.

The Direct Action links generated in WO prior to 5.2.4 were correct. They are no more in 5.3
But whats the problem?
My business is based on accessibility, and not the lowest level, but the other ones that require HTML conformance, so it simply ruined my business;)
This is not too hard to fix.
Did I say I'm still a beginner in WO;) I don't know how to fix it.
I also wonder how this could have worked with WO Version < 5.3. Could you please post an example of the code which works with WO 5.2.x and which does not work with 5.3? This way i might be able to send you a workaround.

I don't really know what I could provide, there's really nothing special. let say I have a WOHyperlink that call the action directAccessAction, I add 2 parameters in the WOBuilder inspector: ?lang="en" ?section="Accueil"
Here's my direct action:
------
    public WOActionResults directAccessAction(){
        String langue = (String)request().formValueForKey("lang");
        String page = (String)request().formValueForKey("section");
        NSMutableArray languages = new NSMutableArray();
        if (langue.equals("fr")) languages.addObject("French");
        if (langue.equals("en")) languages.addObject("English");
        if (langue.equals("es")) languages.addObject("Spanish");
        if (langue.equals("ru")) languages.addObject("Russian");
        if (languages.count()==0) languages.addObject("French");
        session().setLanguages(languages);
        return pageWithName(page);
    }
------
So it use to generate the following link:
/WebObjects/app.woa/wa/directAccess?lang=en&amp;section=Accueil"
and now it generates this invalid link:
/WebObjects/app.woa/wa/directAccess?lang=en&section=Accueil"
I need to get the first link generation back:)
thanks David
Xavier
regards, David
Am 13.09.2005 um 21:07 schrieb Dev WO:
OK David, so here's the details: When you've got a direct Action, in which there are several parameter, it becomes a link like .../wa/actionName?attribute1=xparam&attribute2=yparam for example. The HTML specification says the "&" in URLs must be escaped to "&" so the HTML code for this link should be: .../wa/actionName?attribute1=xparam&attribute2=yparam and it was the case at least in 5.2.3 and earlier (I don't remember in 5.2.4).

So this thing that seems trivial and none harmful just ruined any accessibility "rating" you're application could have (the ratings are A, AA and AAA), at least above A (because it requires a valid HTML code). And the European law says that public organisations must be at least A but target AA.

On my particular side, we were able to provide most af our product as AAA and they now all fall down to A...

I'm not sure I made myself clear, let me know if I'm still "weird":)
Xavier
Hi,
what does this mean 'the & isn't escaped in Direct Action' ??? In the response from a WODirectAction's action method or where??? It would be great if you can explain me this issue a little bit more in detail. I am also sure that with such a bugreport apple would not spend a second before closing such a bugreport ;-)
regards, David
Am 13.09.2005 um 12:58 schrieb Dev WO:
Hi David, just one major issue in 5.3: the & isn't escaped in Direct Action which is a major issue (HTML conformance) as you cannot provide anything to public organisation all over Europe (at least you can only provide the lowest level of accessibility which is simple-A, but can't do double-A or triple-A accessibility as it requires HTML conformance...) It used to work correctly before 5.3 (don't remember in 5.2.4).

I also think the date used to be displayed localized when the session as a language set (at least the ones integrated in OS X).
But I'm not a WO expert, so my point my not be accurate;)
Xavier
Hi,
could you please clarify those important fixes? I would really like to know what exactly does not work.
regards, David
Am 12.09.2005 um 20:00 schrieb Nico Rossi:
Regardless of whether they have done this in the past or not, Apple needs to explain when they will fix the problems in WO 5.3. I am sure many people have decided to avoid WebObjects for projects until the fixes have been made.
Nico
On 9/9/05, Chuck Hill <email@hidden> wrote:
No, they are not allowed to.
Chuck
On Sep 8, 2005, at 7:34 PM, Nathan Walker wrote:
Can an engineer on the WO Team give any indication of a WO 5.3 update please? Just so we could plan for things. I don't see how that could hurt anything.

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