Navigation rule not firing - jsf

Question

I have a navigation rule that looks like this:
<navigation-rule>
<display-name>forgotPwd</display-name>
<from-view-id>/login/forgotpwd.jsf</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>pass</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/login/pwdresetcomplete.xhtml</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
<navigation-case>
<from-outcome>fail</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/login/forgotpwd.xhtml</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>
So I do this to trigger the navigation rule:
Navigate to /login/forgotpwd.jsf?uuid=fed8b3f7-ed33-4941-8306-3d2afbb8d1d0
This page has the following form:
<h:form id="resetForm">
<!-- Omitting the login fields -->
<h:commandButton type="submit" id="resetPassword" value="Save" styleClass="btn small" action="#{registration.resetPassword}" >
<f:param name="uuid" value="#{facesContext.externalContext.requestParameterMap.uuid}" />
</h:commandButton>
</h:form>
(Takes the uuid passed as a query string parameter, and will call the registration.resetPassword function.)
Here is the registration.resetPassword java code:
(Details omitted for brevity)
public String resetPassword() {
// If good
return "pass";
// If bad
return "fail"
}
Problem: When it returns "pass", the navigation rule is not firing. It goes back to /login/forgotpwd.jsf instead of /login/pwdresetcomplete.jsf
Is this because it has the UUID parameter appended to it? Why is my navigation not firing?
Is there some log4j logging that I can trigger to see why this isn't working?

Answer 1

<from-view-id>/login/forgotpwd.jsf</from-view-id>
The from-view-id must be the view ID, not the virtual URL. So, it should not contain .jsf extension.
<from-view-id>/login/forgotpwd.xhtml</from-view-id>
By the way, request parameters are in the view available by #{param}. This saves some characters as compared to #{facesContext.externalContext.requestParameterMap}.
<f:param name="uuid" value="#{param.uuid}" />
See also implicit objects in EL. Another by the way, it's not exactly clear which JSF version you're using, but since JSF 2.0 (which I guess you're using as you're on Facelets already) you don't need the navigation case XML hell anymore. You can just return the (relative and/or extension-less) to-view-id directly from the action method.
public String resetPassword() {
// If good
return "pwdresetcomplete";
// If bad
return "forgotpwd"
}
This way you can get rid of the whole <navigation-rule>. See also implicit navigation.

Answer 2

I added these two rules... now it works. Not sure which one did it but using the from-action made it a lot more happy.
<navigation-rule>
<display-name>forgotPwd</display-name>
<from-view-id>/login/forgotpwd.xhtml</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-action>#{registration.resetPassword}</from-action>
<from-outcome>pass</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/login/pwdresetcomplete.xhtml</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
<navigation-case>
<from-action>#{registration.resetPassword}</from-action>
<from-outcome>fail</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/login/forgotpwd.xhtml</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>
<navigation-rule>
<display-name>forgotPwd</display-name>
<from-view-id>/login/forgotpwd.jsf</from-view-id>
<navigation-case>
<from-action>#{registration.resetPassword}</from-action>
<from-outcome>pass</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/login/pwdresetcomplete.xhtml</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
<navigation-case>
<from-action>#{registration.resetPassword}</from-action>
<from-outcome>fail</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/login/forgotpwd.xhtml</to-view-id>
</navigation-case>
</navigation-rule>