Re: [Tiles] Populating Tiles definition attribute at runtime

[Brice Ruth]

The cleanest thing to do here, likely, would be to have your 'content' 
attribute have a value that maps to an Action (/search.do would work, I 
think - Vic might be able to confirm this) and in the Action class, 
define an attribute "heading" stored in request context, that pulls from 
request parameters. The tiles-defs.xml isn't really a "dynamic" 
mechanism in any way - its a config file that is loaded - it isn't 
treated as a JSP that gets compiled into a .java and then compiled to a 
.class servlet.

Alternately, just set your heading attribute in tiles-defs.xml to be 
"Search" or whatever you want, and in the /search.jsp file, use JSTL to 
prepend param.myValue. This would be pretty clean for simple scenarios.

Robert Taylor wrote:

Greetings, I have a tiles definition in my tiles-defs.xml similar to below:

<definition name="search" extends="layout">
   <put name="heading" value="{0}Search" type="string" />
   <put name="content" value="/search.jsp" type="page" />
 </definition>
which I would like to be able to modify the "heading" value such that
at runtime I could substitute a value for {0}. 

For example, it would be ideal to use a JSTL type of syntax such as:

<definition name="search" extends="layout">
   <put name="heading" value="${param.myValue}Search" type="string" />
   <put name="content" value="/search.jsp" type="page" />
 </definition>
but this does not work.



robert

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Brice D. Ruth
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Fiskars Brands, Inc.
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