I'd definitely like to see the code. Craig
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:07:25 -0400, Sean Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [follow-up to a discussion from the "user" list] > > I think I have a potential solution to a problem I've been having > trying to integrate JSF and Tiles. At first I tried integrating JSF > and Tiles without the struts-faces package (since I wasn't concerned > with having Actions talk to faces, etc.) If you are just relying on > Tiles for layout and using faces for everything else, you are left > with a single problem. The problem is that the form generated by JSF > will try to post to the layout page instead of whatever the original > URL was that triggered Tiles. > > I came up with something that will fix this and depends on using only > one (modified) class from struts-faces. The catch is that it requires > struts-chain. Actually, it can probably be done without struts-chain, > but struts-chain makes it easier to plug-in whatever functionality is > needed. In the end, I envision it to be possible to integrate struts > and faces to varying degrees depending on what functionality you need. > > What I did was to add a new command, TilesFacesPreProcessor (TFPP), > just before the TilesPreProcessor command. TFPP checks to see if a > certain attribute is present in the request. If that attribute is > null, it adds that attribute to the request with a value of the URI of > the request (minus the leading / char). This way we have a record of > the original URI. It only does this if the attribute is null in case > one of your Tiles "inserts" is itself a struts request. > > The other part of the solution is to modify the ViewHandlerImpl in the > struts-faces package. I overrode the getActionURL method and had it > check for the value in the request. If there was a value there, I > return that as the actionURL, otherwise, I pass the request on to the > decorated ViewHandler. > > I can submit some code for people to look at, but first I wanted to > get a sense of what people thought about this idea. It's the best I > could come up with. > > Let me know what you think, > sean > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
