Navigate to another page on rowselect of datatable in primefaces - ajax

Question

I have a primefaces datatable where number of records are displaying.
I want navigate to another page on the rowSelect event (to edit the selected entity for example).
The closest sample/demo I could find was use the p:ajax tag to bind the rowSelect event to a listener method
http://www.primefaces.org/showcase-labs/ui/datatableRowSelectionInstant.jsf
I also got one article for the same http://forum.primefaces.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14664
, I tried to implement in same as they did.But it also didn't worked.
I am trying in this way and guide me If I missed anything.
<p:dataTable var="product" value="#{addPatientBB.patientAddList}" paginator="true" rows="10"
selection="#{addPatientBB.pat}" selectionMode="single">
<p:ajax event="rowSelect" listener="#{addPatientBB.onRowSelect}" />
<p:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="FirstName" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{product.firstName}" />
</p:column>
<p:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Email" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{product.email}" />
</p:column>
<p:column>
<f:facet name="header">
<h:outputText value="Gender" />
</f:facet>
<h:outputText value="#{product.gender}" />
</p:column>
</p:dataTable>
And Backing bean is :
#ManagedBean
#ViewScoped
public class AddPatientBB implements Serializable
{
private Patient pat;
public Patient getPat()
{
System.out.println("tried to get pat");
return pat;
}
public void setPat(Patient pat)
{
this.pat = pat;
System.out.println("tried to set pat");
}
public void onRowSelect()
{
System.out.println("inside onRow select Method");
ConfigurableNavigationHandler configurableNavigationHandler = (ConfigurableNavigationHandler) FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getApplication().getNavigationHandler();
System.out.println("navigation objt created");
configurableNavigationHandler.performNavigation("Page?faces-redirect=true");
// Page is my navigation page where I wish to navigate named as
// "Page.xhtml"
System.out.println("Navigation executed");
}
}
So how can I navigate to another page on rowselect event? and how can display its values after navigationg the form.
I am able to go inside onRowSelect() method , actually problem is he is not able to get or understood that path :
configurableNavigationHandler.performNavigation("Page?faces-redirect=true");
so he is not able to print any logs after this line.
why is it so? is it because of I am using Liferay?
Pla guide me.

Answer 1

Well i think the onRowSelect is never executed because you defined it wrong.
Try this:
public void onRowSelect(SelectEvent event)
{
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().redirect("page.xhtml?id=" +pat.getId());
}

Answer 2

If u are using FacesServlet then use.jsf instead of .xhtml
public void onRowSelect(SelectEvent event)
{
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().redirect("page.jsf?id="+pat.getId());
}