A change in apex 4.1?

Question

Hi,
In my app, I have a process running after submit that prints out some javascript to close a modal popup, which worked pre 4.1 and now it doesnt. It only worked when there was no branches defined on the page.
Now it doesnt work anymore, and it seems that the page defaults to branch to itself when there is no branches??
To make it work I have to change my javascript to run before pagehead and set a condition on it. Also I have to create a branch with a request to make the condition on the javascript work.
Anyone knows if its intentional that the page now defaults to branching to itself when there is no branches defined?

Answer 1

Hi,
yes that was an intentional change in 4.0 to automatically branch to the current page if no branch or no branch condition evaluated to true.
In 4.1 this logic was changed to always reset the HTTP buffer before writing the redirect into the HTTP buffer, because the problem was that the redirect was ignored by the browser if somebody wrote data to the HTTP buffer before the redirect was written.
If you want to write something to the HTTP buffer during accept, just add a
apex_application.stop_apex_engine;at the end of your code to instruct APEX to not continue with its default processing.
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