Here's the problem as I understand it:
To extend a definition you must declare all the attributes in the parent definition even if they're set to "", right?
So, only in WAS 5 when I try <tile:insert> I get an error. The attribute is defined, it's just set to "". So, it's burdensome to use ignore="true" when this is the only way of inserting an extended tile that sets the attribute to ""(AFAIK).
David
This introduce an important change in the behavior: until now, a null page was considered as an error, and so an exception was thrown.
Doing this modification let consider a null page as a valid page value, with no error report !
Personally, I thing that having a null page is an error. Let consider the following declarations:
<tiles:insert page="aPage" /> OK
<tiles:insert /> ERROR !! (but this one is also reported by the tld)
<definition name="aDef" path="aPage" /> OK <definition name="aDef" /> ERROR ! (no report, no exception ;-) )
Checking the struts user list, I suppose you have try to correct a bug encountered with WS 5 where you have something like the following and got a null exception:
<definition name="tiles.leftnav" path="/layout/leftnav.jsp"> <!-- this is the optional secure part of the navigation --> <put name="secureLeftNav" value=""/> </definition>
For me the problem comes from WS 5 that replace the empty string "" by a null reference ;-(.
A solution is to put a blank in the string, and set the flag ignore="true" when inserting the attribute value.
Cedric
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