I'd definitely like to see the code.
Craig
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:07:25 -0400, Sean Schofield
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[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
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