Dear Laurie, You forgot to set a page in your tile definition with the path attribute. The definition needs to be more like so:
<definition name="tiles.view" path="/tiles-test/template.jsp"> <put name="title" value="PAGE TITLE"/> <put name="content" value="/tiles-test/index.jsp"/> </definition> Where /tiles-test/template.jsp could look like: <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-tiles" prefix="tiles" %> <html> <head> <title> <!-- insert the "title" attribute from your definition as a string --> <tiles:getAsString name="title" /> </title> </head> <body> <!-- insert the "content" attribute from your definition as a parsed JSP page --> <tiles:insert attribute="content"> </body> </html> Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Laurie Harper Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 7:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Using tiles This is a newbie question on using the Tiles with Struts (never tried it before). I followed the instructions in the first half of Tiles 101/201, linked from the Tiles documentation but am having no luck on the Struts/Tiles integration front. I suspect I've simply missed a step somewhere. Here's what I've done: * Ensured Tiles is enabled in struts-conf.xml (it was by default): <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin" > <set-property property="definitions-config" value="/WEB-INF/conf/tiles-defs.xml" /> <set-property property="moduleAware" value="true" /> <set-property property="definitions-parser-validate" value="true" /> </plug-in> * added a tile definition to teils-defs.xml: <definition name="tiles.view"> <put name="title" value="PAGE TITLE"/> <put name="content" value="/tiles-test/index.jsp"/> </definition> * added an action mapping to struts-conf.xml pointing to the tile: <action path="/tiles" type="DummyTilesAction"> <forward name="view" path="tiles.view"/> </action> * created /tiles-test/index.jsp with some static text content What I expected was that when I hit /tiles.do I'd get back the static content from /tiles-test/index.jsp. What I actually get back is the string '<html><body></body></html>', which I haven't defined anywhere. I also tried implementing execute() in DummyTilesAction to do a 'return mappings.findForward("view");' but no luck. Changing the name of the view in struts-conf.xml or tiles-defs.xml makes no difference, and generates no error messages when they don't match, which makes me suspicious... The tiles defs do seem to be read in on startup: L4J 2004-03-15 19:22:47,801 DEBUG org.apache.struts.tiles.xmlDefinition.I18nFactorySet default factory:{tiles.layout.basic={name=tiles.layout.basic, path=/tiles.layout.basic.jsp, role=null, controller=null, controllerType=null, controllerInstance=null, attributes={title=DEFAULT TITLE, content=/tiles.content.default.jsp, menu=/tiles.layout.basic.menu.jsp}} , tiles.view={name=tiles.view, path=null, role=null, controller=null, controllerType=null, controllerInstance=null, attributes={title=PAGE TITLE, content=/tiles-test/index.jsp}} } L4J 2004-03-15 19:22:48,065 DEBUG org.apache.struts.tiles.xmlDefinition.I18nFactorySet Factory initialized from file '/WEB-INF/conf/tiles-defs.xml'. L4J 2004-03-15 19:22:48,065 INFO org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin Tiles definition factory loaded for module ''. and the action mapping was picked up correctly; when I hit /tiles.do I get this logged: L4J 2004-03-15 19:25:49,791 DEBUG org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor Looking for Action instance for class DummyTilesAction But no Tiles related logging, and the page specified in the tile definition isn't loaded. The taglib documentation at http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/userGuide/struts-tiles.html says that I have to call initComponentDefinitions or otherwise arrange to have Tiles initialized. I thought the configuration in struts-conf.xml would make that happen, but tried calling the tag in case. That didn't seem to help. What am I doing wrong? If I've left any information out, please ask and I'll post it. Thanks, L. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
