[Seaside] How do I get the base URL? I want to send out an email with a link

[Sean Allen]

as far as i know, there is no way to get the complete url w/ domain,
you have to build it yourself from
the information you can get from request like what you are doing.

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Pat Maddox <patmaddox at me.com> wrote:
> requestContext request url doesn't return the full URL for me. Here's what I ended up doing:
>
> MyCustomWASession#applicationUrl
>        | url request |
>        applicationUrl ifNil: [
>                request := self requestContext request.
>                url := request url withoutQuery.
>                (self application url relativeTo: url) do: [ :each |
>                        url path removeLast ].
>                applicationUrl := 'http://' , request host , url asString ].
>        ^ applicationUrl.
>
> Then my WAComponent subclass just delegates to 'session applicationUrl'.
>
> I have some objects that aren't WAObject descendants at all, so I made a WAObject subclass called ARPApplicationConfig, which I added applicationUrl as a class method to, and then it uses the singleton pattern to create a new instance and delegate applicationUrl to that instance.  So in my other objects that need access to the URL, I can just call  'ARPApplicationConfig applicationUrl'.
>
> Thanks everyone for the input.  I'll report back if I run into any problems with it.
>
> Pat
>
>
> On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:00 PM, Philippe Marschall wrote:
>
>> 2010/8/4 Pat Maddox <patmaddox at me.com>:
>>> Okay so the high level goal is to send out an email that contains a link to my application.  Think http://myapplication.com/invite/abc123
>>>
>>> I'm not sure how to go about doing this.  I found  WAApplication#url which sent me on an interesting journey...because when I did "self halt" inside of a WAComponent subclass and ran "self application" then I get a WARequestContextNotFound error, although apparently that's only when I launch a debugger.
>>>
>>> So after figuring out that I can't access "self application" from the debugger I finally got "self application url" rendered on my page, and saw that it was only the path.  How can I get the full URL?  I don't want to hardcode it...I assume I should be able to get the base URL of my application from somewhere but I'm not sure.
>>
>>
>> Try something like this:
>>
>>       | url |
>>       url := self requestContext request url withoutQuery.
>>       (self application url relativeTo: url) do: [ :each |
>>               url path removeLast ].
>>
>> Cheers
>> Philippe
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