Web and WebWorks Development

[willcainsvg]

I have a WebWorks app that I would like to launch from a browser URL, and pass URL query parameters to the app that way. Can this be done? How? I would be happy to use HttpFilterRegistry or the Invoke API, but I don't see how to use those approaches to obtain the parameters from within my WebWorks app, even if I write a custom extension. Sample code would be very helpful, especially for consuming the parameters. Or at least an indication of which API(s) can do this.

[Ranaman · Accepted solution]

This should be taken care of by the framework. What I would recoemmend is simply invoking the application as per normal and placing the parameters in the URL with the standard  "&" "?" notation.

Then leverage the UTIL JS class to pull out the required passed parameters... 

https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/html5/apis/blackberry.utils.URL.html

(If you need help invoking the app, it is done like invoking any other java app on the device)

R

[willcainsvg]

Thanks!  I think that's enough to get me started implementing the consumption side.  Could you point me to anything about launching a Java app from a URL?  Perhaps I need to use HttpFilterRegistry.registerFilter()?  Not sure how/where to do that in WebWorks.

[Ranaman]

Stealing from StackOverflow... (yikes!)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4568503/how-to-launch-an-application-from-the-browser-in-blackber...

[willcainsvg]

Ok, thanks!  Hopefully that's easy from WebWorks.  =)  I guess I have to write an extension and include the HttpFilterRegistry.registerFilter() call and Protocol.java implementation there.

[dtater]

Hi there. Did you ever manage to solve this? If so, how? I am exploring similar functionality for an application i am writing. Thanks for your time.

[rlammers]

I'm facing the same problem. Registering a custom uri scheme for the PlayBook on the Adobe Air platform is really easy. Is there a solution yet for this problem?

Thank you in advance!