Passing large input from ADF taskflow to servlet

Question

Hi,
Using JDeveloper 11.1.1.4.
We have an application where we need to render dynamic content on the page so we are using a popup window with an inline frame component which calls a servlet that provides the content. This is working fine otherwise but on some views one of the parameters for the servlet comes from a free-form text field which can potentially contain pages of text that we want to include in the dynamic content. This won't fit in a normal URL parameter, so what would be the best practice solution for passing the required input to the servlet in this case?
Regards,
Joonas

Answer 1

Hi Frank,
Yes, I can access the session from the servlet. I did some tests with this and it seems that if I store the text straight to session scope (af:richTextEditor value=#{sessionScope.variable}), the servlet can access it just fine no matter how long the text. If I first store the text to pageflow scope variable (since it is used elsewhere and I wouldn't want to refactor the taskflows) and then try to copy it to session scope via f:setPropertyActionListener, the servlet fails silently if the text is longer than a few paragraphs. Any idea why this is happening? A limitation of setPropertyActionListener?
Thanks,
Joonas