How can I avoid routing to a screen after login I always want root

Support
#1

when I login i just want to go to
localhost:8080

I never want to go to a
localhost:8080/someView

or see that ?continue…

how can I disable this?

#3

Hi,

Unfortunately, there is no setting that can disable rerouting to the last view. However, you can override the LoginViewSupport bean and provide a custom implementation for the showInitialView() method that strictly opens the main view by calling navigateToMainView() without any additional checks.

#5

Thank you for your response.
Is there an example on how to do this? It is super annoying because I want to restrict the user to make a selection after login and then load the rest of the screens.

#6

Hi,
not sure but maybe this can help here.
To set a default view, I modify MainView.java like this:

    //default view
    @Override
    public void beforeEnter(BeforeEnterEvent event) {
        if (event.getLocation().getPath().isEmpty()) {
            event.forwardTo(StartView.class);
        }
    }

StartView.class is the name of the default view.

Kind regards,
Mladen

#7

Thanks for your response.
It somewhat works. But I need to show a list of options make a selection… save that in a session variable and then allow the other screens. I hide the Menu from the left hand drawer since this grid is in the initial layout.

#8

I ended up doing something like this… its a little clunky because the wrong page loads then reloads to root… There has to be a way to have a setting to not route someone to previously visited page especially if they depend from a session variable to load data that is selected on my root page.

 @Subscribe
    public void onInit(final InitEvent event) {
        if (!isInMainPage()) {
            UI.getCurrent().getPage().setLocation("/");
        }
    }

    public boolean isInMainPage() {
        String currentURL = VaadinService.getCurrentRequest().getHeader("referer");
        return !currentURL.contains("?") && currentURL.replace("://", "").split("/").length <= 1;
    }