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Have some strange behavior of the URL that gets displayed in my browser after redirecting between pages with a shared controller.

Reproducible Code

public with sharing class FooController {

        //saves the quotes
    public PageReference toFoo1(){
        PageReference pr = Page.foo1;
        pr.setRedirect(false); 
        return pr;
    }

    public PageReference toFoo2(){
        PageReference pr = Page.foo2;
        pr.setRedirect(false); 
        return pr;
    }
}

<apex:page showHeader="true" sidebar="true" controller="FooController">
    <apex:form>
    <apex:commandButton styleClass="button quote-btn" value="to foo2" action="{!toFoo2}" />
    </apex:form>
</apex:page>

<apex:page showHeader="true" sidebar="true" controller="FooController">
    <apex:form>
    <apex:commandButton styleClass="button quote-btn" value="to foo1" action="{!toFoo1}" />
</apex:form>
</apex:page>

After the first redirect, query params are dropped but the path does not change. However, if I redirect again, then the URL is then updated to the previous page.

Example:

  • Starting on /apex/Foo1?bar=abc...
  • Click "To Foo2" button. URL now reads /apex/Foo1
  • Click "To Foo1" button. URL now reads /apex/Foo2
  • Click "To Foo2" button. URL now reads /apex/Foo1

Update

Setting redirect to true is not an option as I do not want my viewstate to change.

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  • I've seen this previously and found it very annoying, if you need the viewstate i think you're stuck. Personally I left it as is since I didn't believe end users would look very closely at the URLs. If you don't need a view state you can use a tags instead of commandbuttons. – Ralph Callaway May 24 '16 at 17:52
  • you might just for fun try commandlink or outputlink to see if the behavior changes, i doubt it, but worth trying – Ralph Callaway May 24 '16 at 17:52
  • true, refreshing the page causes odd behavior but I'm not sure how often uses will actually manually do so. Also can lead to confusion if the client includes the url in a bug ticket. – NSjonas May 24 '16 at 17:57
  • FYI: commandlink has the same behavor and an outputlink doesn't preserve viewstate. – NSjonas May 24 '16 at 18:05
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 pr.setRedirect(false);

Instead of this. do this

pr.setRedirect(true);

Because setRedirect(false) don't refresh the view state and keep the value of controller variable. So update this.

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  • I don't want the viewstate to change – NSjonas May 24 '16 at 16:13
  • @NSjonas I think you are stuck here because this is SF native behavior. Instead of view state you can try cookies if it is small data/ – Tushar Sharma May 24 '16 at 18:17

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