After lot of reading was finally able to change the default behaviour
( default behaviour was - Get request , post (302/303 - redirect as per location appended for each request ) , finally a get call.
So for one request we will send a Get Request then Service will return 302/303 with location attribute ( ie redirected with query param ) and as a response HTML with QueryString usually e1s1 is loaded. Sample proj is in this link and following is the change that is been implemented to avoid this default behaviour as following
To avoid 303/302 which has unpredictable behaviour i have stoped redirection with following addition to Config Class
@Configuration
public class WebFlowWithMvcConfig extends AbstractFlowConfiguration {
//implements WebMvcConfigurer
@Autowired
private LocalValidatorFactoryBean localValidatorFacotryBean;
/*
@Override
public void addInterceptors(InterceptorRegistry registry) {
registry.addInterceptor(new LogInterceptor());
}
*/
@Bean
public FlowDefinitionRegistry flowRegistry() {
return getFlowDefinitionRegistryBuilder() //
.setBasePath("classpath:flows") //
.addFlowLocationPattern("/**/*-flow.xml") //
.setFlowBuilderServices(this.flowBuilderServices()) //
.build();
}
@Bean
public FlowExecutor flowExecutor() {
return getFlowExecutorBuilder(this.flowRegistry())
.setAlwaysRedirectOnPause(false)
.setRedirectInSameState(false)
.build();
}
@Bean
public FlowBuilderServices flowBuilderServices() {
return getFlowBuilderServicesBuilder() //
.setViewFactoryCreator(this.mvcViewFactoryCreator()) // Important!
.setValidator(this.localValidatorFacotryBean)
.build();
}
// ----------------------------------------------------------
@Bean
public FlowHandlerMapping flowHandlerMapping() {
FlowHandlerMapping handlerMapping = new FlowHandlerMapping();
handlerMapping.setOrder(-1);
handlerMapping.setFlowRegistry(this.flowRegistry());
//handlerMapping.setInterceptors(new LogInterceptor());
return handlerMapping;
}
@Bean
public FlowHandlerAdapter flowHandlerAdapter() {
FlowHandlerAdapter handlerAdapter = new FlowHandlerAdapter();
handlerAdapter.setFlowExecutor(this.flowExecutor());
handlerAdapter.setSaveOutputToFlashScopeOnRedirect(true);
//handlerAdapter.setStatusCode(HttpStatus.SEE_OTHER);
//handlerAdapter.setStatusCode(HttpStatus.TEMPORARY_REDIRECT);
return handlerAdapter;
}
@Bean
public ViewFactoryCreator mvcViewFactoryCreator() {
MvcViewFactoryCreator factoryCreator = new MvcViewFactoryCreator();
factoryCreator.setViewResolvers(Collections.singletonList(this.thymeleafViewResolver()));
factoryCreator.setUseSpringBeanBinding(true);
return factoryCreator;
}
@Bean
@Description("Thymeleaf AJAX view resolver for Spring WebFlow")
public AjaxThymeleafViewResolver thymeleafViewResolver() {
AjaxThymeleafViewResolver viewResolver = new AjaxThymeleafViewResolver();
viewResolver.setViewClass(FlowAjaxThymeleafView.class);
viewResolver.setTemplateEngine(this.templateEngine());
viewResolver.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
return viewResolver;
}
@Bean
@Description("Thymeleaf template resolver serving HTML 5")
public ClassLoaderTemplateResolver templateResolver() {
ClassLoaderTemplateResolver templateResolver = new ClassLoaderTemplateResolver();
templateResolver.setPrefix("templates/");
templateResolver.setCacheable(false);
templateResolver.setSuffix(".html");
templateResolver.setTemplateMode("HTML5");
templateResolver.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
return templateResolver;
}
@Bean
@Description("Thymeleaf template engine with Spring integration")
public SpringTemplateEngine templateEngine() {
SpringTemplateEngine templateEngine = new SpringTemplateEngine();
templateEngine.setTemplateResolver(this.templateResolver());
return templateEngine;
}
}
So we have made following as false
.setAlwaysRedirectOnPause(false)
.setRedirectInSameState(false)
Which will avoid location redirect now the similar change has to be implemented in the template html's too. So the change was to add an action url to html template wherever form is present as following
<form .. th:action="${flowExecutionUrl}">
Which successfully does form submission and responds with 200 Ok http status and html page. Hence no more (GET - 200 to 302 redirect to 200) instead direct single request call with Get 200/Post 200 and response is binded to Html page.
In this way just the final request only with response is present.
I hope this would be helpful for others.
