> -----Original Message----- > From: David M. Karr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Tiles: pass "title" value to header page > > > I have a simple page definition that looks like this: > > -------------- > <tiles:insert page="basicLayout.jsp"> > <tiles:put name="title" value="Music Index Home"/> > <tiles:put name="header" value="header.jsp"/> > <tiles:put name="footer" value="footer.jsp"/> > <tiles:put name="sidebar" value="menu.jsp"/> > <tiles:put name="body" value="mainBody.jsp"/> > </tiles:insert> > -------------- > > I'm thinking that it might be good to code "header.jsp" so it > shows the "title" > string, by reference, instead of hard-coded, so I don't have to > write it twice,
What would you have twice? The tiles:put or the tiles:getAsString? Why not just define the title in the ApplicationResources.properties file? > in two different places. I would have to somehow "pass" the > value provided for > the "title" attribute to "header.jsp" so it can read it as a > request attribute, > possibly. > > What are the various ways I could achieve this (hopefully without using > scriptlets)? Is this a reasonable thing to do? It's not clear (to me) what you want to do. Off-hand (and if I am guess-timating correctly) I can think of about 10 unique ways to avoid duplication of code (or in this case, tiles configuration) > > If I could send "request parameters" or "attributes" with > "tiles:insert", then > with my "tiles:insert" tag for the "header" attribute, I could > pass the output > of "tiles:getAsString" to get the "title" field. I don't know if this is > possible, however. In concept, you would only want to do this if you wanted a different title for each view. I can provide (very basic) code samples for what I consider to be "Best Practices with Tiles". Let me know if you would like a copy. > > -- > =================================================================== > David M. Karr ; Java/J2EE/XML/Unix/C++ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > James Mitchell Software Engineer\Struts Evangelist Struts-Atlanta, the "Open Minded Developer Network" http://www.open-tools.org/struts-atlanta -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
