[xwiki-devs] URL's computed inside JavaScript code

Hi, We have many places in our JavaScript code where URLs are computed from different fragments. The most common use case is appending query string parameters to an existing URL: window.docgeturl + '?xpage=xpart&vm=' + extraTemplate This code works well in servlet mode but it's almost impossible to integrate in portlet mode because portlet URLs are special http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/PortletIntegration#HPortletURLs . You can't add parameters to a portlet URL by simply appending them to the query string. There are two scenarios (for portlet mode): (1) Either window.docgeturl is a portlet URL written on the server when the page was rendered and in this case parameters appended to the query string will be ignored (2) or window.docgeturl is a servlet URL, but we have to rewrite on the server the computed URL into a portlet URL -- impossible What if we avoid computing URLs in JavaScript code and instead get the URLs from HTML elements (e.g. anchors or forms)? <a id="commentsResourceId" href="$doc.getURL('get', '?xpage=xpart&vm=commentsinline.vm')" class="hidden">Comments</a> ... $(commentsResourceId).href I'm interested to know if this would help others too. Thanks, Marius