Im an idiot for thinking this,
>>am I write in thinking that all template data is flushed into
EreportDesktopLayout.jsp.
In the examples I have been looking at I couldn't work out where the layout
page rsided
and what was in it, its not fully clicked yet but getting there.
my EreportDesktopLayout.jsp now looks like so,
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld" prefix="tiles" %>
<tiles:insert attribute="header"/>
<tiles:insert attribute="customHeader"/>
<tiles:insert attribute="desktopLayout"/>
<tiles:insert attribute="footer"/>
im getting content returned now however my header file is not rendering my
style sheet,
<tiles:insert attribute="header"/> which is
/WEB-INF/jspf/htmlComponents/eReportHeader.jspf
<snip>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html-el.tld" prefix="html" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/c.tld" prefix="c"%>
<html>
<head>
<title>Neo E-Reports</title>
<link href="<html:rewrite page="/styles/neoStyles.css"/>"
rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</snip>
my style sheet is not getting rendered now, instead when I view source it
is,
<link href="<html:rewrite page="/styles/neoStyles.css"/>" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css">
-----Original Message-----
From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 12 January 2005 12:05
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: getting tiles to work
hi,
just trying to configure my application here so it can use tiles,
however I have been running into some difficulties, I managed to get round
them
and now my result is any empty response.
I redirect to my base jsp page from my Action,
contents of base jsp template eReportDesktop.jsp
------------------
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld" prefix="tiles" %>
<tiles:insert page="/layouts/EreportDesktopLayout.jsp" flush="true">
<tiles:put name="header"
value="/WEB-INF/jspf/htmlComponents/eReportHeader.jspf" />
<tiles:put name="customHeader"
value="/WEB-INF/eReports/header/eReportCustomerHeader.jsp" />
<tiles:put name="desktopLayout"
value="/WEB-INF/eReports/deskTopLayout/jspf/deskTopLayout.jspf" />
<tiles:put name="footer"
value="/WEB-INF/jspf/htmlComponents/eReportFooter.jspf" />
</tiles:insert>
all the <tiles:put> templates contain all the data to build the finished
template to be returned,
EreportDesktopLayout.jsp is effectively blank, am I write in thinking that
all template data is flushed
into EreportDesktopLayout.jsp. If not I don't understand this, interesting
but I don't understand.
My configuration is like so,
tomcat 4.01 , struts 1.1
struts-config (I declare the pulgin)
<!--tiles plugin-->
<plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin">
<set-property property="definitions-config"
value="/WEB-INF/struts-tiles-defs.xml"/>
<set-property property="definitions-debug" value="2"/>
<set-property property="definitions-parser-details"
value="2"/>
<set-property property="definitions-parser-validate"
value="true"/>
<set-property property="moduleAware" value="true"/>
</plug-in>
if I leave this attribute/element out <set-property
property="definitions-config" value="/WEB-INF/struts-tiles-defs.xml"/>
it flakes,
so I had to create a file struts-tiles-defs.xml,
struts-tiles-defs.xml
---------------------
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration//EN"
"http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/tiles-config.dtd";>
<tiles-definitions>
<definition name="test"
path="/layouts/EreportDesktopLayout.jsp">
<put name="header"
value="/WEB-INF/jspf/htmlComponents/eReportHeader.jspf"/>
<put name="customHeader"
value="/WEB-INF/eReports/header/eReportCustomerHeader.jsp"/>
<put name="desktopLayout"
value="/WEB-INF/eReports/deskTopLayout/deskTopLayout.jspf"/>
<put name="footer"
value="/WEB-INF/jspf/htmlComponents/eReportFooter.jspf"/>
</definition>
</tiles-definitions>
I imported struts-tiles.tld into my web-inf,
made reference in my deployment descriptor web.xml
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
my resulting template eReportDesktop.jsp returns blank,
it used to be like this which worked fine,
<%@ include file="/WEB-INF/jspf/htmlComponents/eReportHeader.jspf" %>
<jsp:include page="/WEB-INF/eReports/header/eReportCustomerHeader.jsp" />
<%@ include file="/WEB-INF/eReports/deskTopLayout/deskTopLayout.jspf" %>
<%@ include file="/WEB-INF/jspf/htmlComponents/eReportFooter.jspf" %>
however I like the concept of tiles.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
