Thanks,
let me provide a more real world example and see what you would do.
- I have a menu that is customized according to the user.
- I have a tile that displays the menu data.
- I have a layout that has a <tiles:insert name="menu">
- In my tiles-defs.xml I give the following definition for the "menu"
insert.
<definition name="main"
path="/layouts/mainlayout.jsp">
<put name="menu"
value="tile.menu"
type="definition"/>
</definition>
<definition name="tile.menu"
controllerUrl="/do/menu"/>
- The "tile.menu" contollerUrl needs to retrieve the userid from the
original action that called the mypage definition. Since the tile.menu
definition spawns it's own request I assume it does not have access to the
request of the parent page. Therefore, I was wondering if there is a way to
pass the userId down into the request that is spawned by the controllerUrl.
Here is a step through of the process I envision
request ->
Action ->
page that contains controllerUrl tile definition ->
menu tile calls controllerUrl Action ->
(Here is where I want to pass parameters into the request spawned by the
controllerUrl)
Action does it's magic ->
Action returns a page with a menu customized to a particular user.
Thanks for your help.
Brandon Goodin
Phase Web and Multimedia
PO Box 85
Whitefish MT 59937
P (406) 862-2245
F (406) 862-0354
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.phase.ws
-----Original Message-----
From: Cedric Dumoulin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 4:06 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: Tiles and appending request parameters
Hi,
I think that the problem is not related to the Tiles. What you want is
to be able to add a request parameter to the current requestResponse.
When Tiles include the controller via its url, is simply do an
include, and doesn't modify the requestResponse object. So, you still
have all the http parameters that are associated to the request. You can
yourself modify the requestResponse object in your action before
inserting the tiles. Check the jsp and servlet spec to know if it is
possible to add an http parameter. Personally I use to pass such extra
parameters in the request context or Tile context rather than a new http
parameter.
Hope this help,
Cedric
Brandon Goodin wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>I have asked this question in the past and have lived with the limitation
of
>not being able to do it. The only reason why I ask now is that I recently
>gave a quickstart presentation on tiles and wasn't sure if somethin had
been
>added to remedy the problem. So, I wanted to pose it again to see if there
>has been an enhancement that supports it or there is a viable workaround
>that can produce the same results (without scriplets).
>
>I have a layout that has an <insert> that uses the controllerUrl attribute.
>I want to append a parameter to the controllerUrl. Is this possible yet?
>
>For example:
>
>I have this definition:
>
><definition name="tile.weather"
> path="/layouts/weather/weatherlayout.jsp"
> controllerUrl="/do/weather"/>
>
>When the page renders I want to attach the following request paramters to
>the controllerUrl value:
>
>?weatherStationID=KFCA
>
>So that the controllerUrl ultimately calls:
>
>...
>controllerUrl="/do/weather?weatherStationID=KFCA"
>...
>
>The parameters will be supplied by the action that called the parent
layout.
>
>This is not a realworld example. It is just a simple illustration. Please
do
>not send me alternate approaches. I just want to know if dynamic parameter
>appending is possible with tiles.
>
>Thanks all.
>Brandon Goodin
>Phase Web and Multimedia
>PO Box 85
>Whitefish MT 59937
>P (406) 862-2245
>F (406) 862-0354
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.phase.ws
>
>
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