Capture current JSF page content

Question

I want to capture the current page and send it to an application that converts it to pdf.

This is what I am using:

FacesContext facesContext=FacesContext         


        

Answer 1

Just request the page in the same HTTP session as the current request. If your webapp supports URL rewriting (as by default), then just append session ID as jsessionid path fragment:

String sessionId = ((HttpSession) externalContext.getSession()).getId();
InputStream input = new URL("http://localhost:8080/context/page.jsf;jsessionid=" + sessionId).openStream();
// ...

Or if your webapp doesn't accept URL rewriting, but accepts cookies only, then set it as a request cookie the usual way:

URLConnection connection = new URL("http://localhost:8080/context/page.jsf").openConnection();
connection.setRequestProperty("Cookie", "JSESSIONID=" + sessionId);
InputStream input = connection.getInputStream();
// ...

Note that I removed setDoOutput() since you don't seem to be interested in performing a POST request.