Re: Tags as template parameters?
Dave, You're a valuable resource to the Struts board! Pascal should pay attention to what you say. Paul On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Kawczynski, David wrote: Sitemesh doesn't build the entire page... it is a Filter that grabs the response text (immediately before the servlet container sends it to the client) and adds to it. Decorators contain what is added to the response. I've found that if your decorators require a lot of run-time logic then yes, it will take more time then if it were never modified. (Exactly how much time depends on the decorator's logic.) Otherwise, the time to decorate a page is negligible. Be smart when writing your decorators... for instance, mapping different decorators to the diverging URI patterns is an easy way to avoid the time penalty associated with logic in decorators. HTH, -dave -Original Message- From: Pascal [mailto:pas...@voidmage.net] Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 8:13 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Tags as template parameters? I just had a look at Sitemesh and it looks like what I want. There is one thing that disturbs me, though, it looks as if sitemesh will build the page every request, which causes quite some overhead, or am I mistaken there? Pascal On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:44:59 -0400, Wes Wannemacher w...@wantii.com wrote: I'm on my phone so I only skimmed your message. If I read correctly, you should take a look at sitemesh. -W On 7/17/09, Pascal pas...@voidmage.net wrote: Hello list, in Struts2 it is possible to do something like html body s:myMainNavigationMenu / h1A page/h1 pSome content/p /body /html This works ok, but my problem is that I have to change every single page, if i would like to have a custom footer for every page, for example. Now my question is: Is it possible to do something like this? s:useTemplate name=myCommonTemplate s:setTemplateTag name=body h1A page/h1 pSome content/p /s:setTemplateTag /s:useTemplate And as template definition say !-- Main menu -- table.../table s:insertTemplateTag name=body / !-- Footer -- pThis is the footer/p I know it is possible to use parameters for templates, but they obviously have huge limitations as I can't just put the tags there as I did in my example. Also, I could do something like s:myMainTemplate s:param name=bodyPage value=page1.jsp / /s:myMainTemplate which I also don't want because I would have an extra (unnecessary) page. So, is it possible to pass whole XML-Structures to templates? Maybe you have some reasons why I shouldn't want what I'm suggesting here, I would be eager to hear them! :-) Pascal - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck Co., Inc. (One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA 08889), and/or its affiliates (which may be known outside the United States as Merck Frosst, Merck Sharp Dohme or MSD and in Japan, as Banyu - direct contact information for affiliates is available at http://www.merck.com/contact/contacts.html) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete it from your system. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
RE: Tags as template parameters?
Sitemesh doesn't build the entire page... it is a Filter that grabs the response text (immediately before the servlet container sends it to the client) and adds to it. Decorators contain what is added to the response. I've found that if your decorators require a lot of run-time logic then yes, it will take more time then if it were never modified. (Exactly how much time depends on the decorator's logic.) Otherwise, the time to decorate a page is negligible. Be smart when writing your decorators... for instance, mapping different decorators to the diverging URI patterns is an easy way to avoid the time penalty associated with logic in decorators. HTH, -dave -Original Message- From: Pascal [mailto:pas...@voidmage.net] Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 8:13 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Tags as template parameters? I just had a look at Sitemesh and it looks like what I want. There is one thing that disturbs me, though, it looks as if sitemesh will build the page every request, which causes quite some overhead, or am I mistaken there? Pascal On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:44:59 -0400, Wes Wannemacher w...@wantii.com wrote: I'm on my phone so I only skimmed your message. If I read correctly, you should take a look at sitemesh. -W On 7/17/09, Pascal pas...@voidmage.net wrote: Hello list, in Struts2 it is possible to do something like html body s:myMainNavigationMenu / h1A page/h1 pSome content/p /body /html This works ok, but my problem is that I have to change every single page, if i would like to have a custom footer for every page, for example. Now my question is: Is it possible to do something like this? s:useTemplate name=myCommonTemplate s:setTemplateTag name=body h1A page/h1 pSome content/p /s:setTemplateTag /s:useTemplate And as template definition say !-- Main menu -- table.../table s:insertTemplateTag name=body / !-- Footer -- pThis is the footer/p I know it is possible to use parameters for templates, but they obviously have huge limitations as I can't just put the tags there as I did in my example. Also, I could do something like s:myMainTemplate s:param name=bodyPage value=page1.jsp / /s:myMainTemplate which I also don't want because I would have an extra (unnecessary) page. So, is it possible to pass whole XML-Structures to templates? Maybe you have some reasons why I shouldn't want what I'm suggesting here, I would be eager to hear them! :-) Pascal - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck Co., Inc. (One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA 08889), and/or its affiliates (which may be known outside the United States as Merck Frosst, Merck Sharp Dohme or MSD and in Japan, as Banyu - direct contact information for affiliates is available at http://www.merck.com/contact/contacts.html) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete it from your system. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
Re: Tags as template parameters?
I just had a look at Sitemesh and it looks like what I want. There is one thing that disturbs me, though, it looks as if sitemesh will build the page every request, which causes quite some overhead, or am I mistaken there? Pascal On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:44:59 -0400, Wes Wannemacher w...@wantii.com wrote: I'm on my phone so I only skimmed your message. If I read correctly, you should take a look at sitemesh. -W On 7/17/09, Pascal pas...@voidmage.net wrote: Hello list, in Struts2 it is possible to do something like html body s:myMainNavigationMenu / h1A page/h1 pSome content/p /body /html This works ok, but my problem is that I have to change every single page, if i would like to have a custom footer for every page, for example. Now my question is: Is it possible to do something like this? s:useTemplate name=myCommonTemplate s:setTemplateTag name=body h1A page/h1 pSome content/p /s:setTemplateTag /s:useTemplate And as template definition say !-- Main menu -- table.../table s:insertTemplateTag name=body / !-- Footer -- pThis is the footer/p I know it is possible to use parameters for templates, but they obviously have huge limitations as I can't just put the tags there as I did in my example. Also, I could do something like s:myMainTemplate s:param name=bodyPage value=page1.jsp / /s:myMainTemplate which I also don't want because I would have an extra (unnecessary) page. So, is it possible to pass whole XML-Structures to templates? Maybe you have some reasons why I shouldn't want what I'm suggesting here, I would be eager to hear them! :-) Pascal - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
Tags as template parameters?
Hello list, in Struts2 it is possible to do something like html body s:myMainNavigationMenu / h1A page/h1 pSome content/p /body /html This works ok, but my problem is that I have to change every single page, if i would like to have a custom footer for every page, for example. Now my question is: Is it possible to do something like this? s:useTemplate name=myCommonTemplate s:setTemplateTag name=body h1A page/h1 pSome content/p /s:setTemplateTag /s:useTemplate And as template definition say !-- Main menu -- table.../table s:insertTemplateTag name=body / !-- Footer -- pThis is the footer/p I know it is possible to use parameters for templates, but they obviously have huge limitations as I can't just put the tags there as I did in my example. Also, I could do something like s:myMainTemplate s:param name=bodyPage value=page1.jsp / /s:myMainTemplate which I also don't want because I would have an extra (unnecessary) page. So, is it possible to pass whole XML-Structures to templates? Maybe you have some reasons why I shouldn't want what I'm suggesting here, I would be eager to hear them! :-) Pascal - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
Re: Tags as template parameters?
I'm on my phone so I only skimmed your message. If I read correctly, you should take a look at sitemesh. -W On 7/17/09, Pascal pas...@voidmage.net wrote: Hello list, in Struts2 it is possible to do something like html body s:myMainNavigationMenu / h1A page/h1 pSome content/p /body /html This works ok, but my problem is that I have to change every single page, if i would like to have a custom footer for every page, for example. Now my question is: Is it possible to do something like this? s:useTemplate name=myCommonTemplate s:setTemplateTag name=body h1A page/h1 pSome content/p /s:setTemplateTag /s:useTemplate And as template definition say !-- Main menu -- table.../table s:insertTemplateTag name=body / !-- Footer -- pThis is the footer/p I know it is possible to use parameters for templates, but they obviously have huge limitations as I can't just put the tags there as I did in my example. Also, I could do something like s:myMainTemplate s:param name=bodyPage value=page1.jsp / /s:myMainTemplate which I also don't want because I would have an extra (unnecessary) page. So, is it possible to pass whole XML-Structures to templates? Maybe you have some reasons why I shouldn't want what I'm suggesting here, I would be eager to hear them! :-) Pascal - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org -- Wes Wannemacher Author - Struts 2 In Practice Includes coverage of Struts 2.1, Spring, JPA, JQuery, Sitemesh and more http://www.manning.com/wannemacher - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
