Situation:

• Using OTB content-i18n mechanism
• Having content on website, and in content apps translated.
• Trying to achieve a dynamic page that redirects nice URL's to itself alike this example:

  • fromUri

    /products/([0-9a-zA-Z-]+)\.html

• • toUri

    forward:/product/detail.html?productId=$1

• On that dynamic page content should be rendered i18n-ized fetched from the content app (or any other system).
• Also this should work on redirects and permanent redirects.

Problem 1: Local information ist lost.

=> This can NOT work!! Because the information of the local is lost on the forward/redirect/permanent.

Problem 2: The site information (in the URL) is lost

=> This can ONLY work on public instances with domain mapping!! 
Because the information of the siteDefintion's name in the URL is lost on the redirect/permanent.

The current pattern of VirtualUriMapping in the scope of redirect&permanent will only work on public instances with a domain mapping. On author it won't work at all, as the site defintion-name ist lost in the url.

Solution / Workaround

Use the patched class.

Be aware that it provides two additional configuration values (default is false):

useLocale: true

useSiteDefinition: true

Without enabling them the Mapping behaves 1:1 as the original/OTB RegexpVirtualUriMapping class.

 Attention: This class is a work around/poc, it has not been tested in all possible complex multisite environments.