Hi, I solved the problem by "playing the container". I called the tag functions that the container would have called in the same sequence. This surely is a hack, but works for me right now.
If you guys have a better way to solve this issue, I would be glad to hear it. Regards, Raghu On 1/25/06, Raghu Kanchustambham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to generate a *dynamic* menu. > I have a regular 'java' function which spits out menu tags (struts > layout taglib related). > The intention is to use Sitemesh to create the menu depending on the > access permissions of the logged in user without any "dirty coding" in > JSP's. > > <%=Resource.generateMenu(DataAccessManager.getResourceById(-1))%> > > Resource.generateMenu recursively calls itself till it generates a > string of menu tags depending on access permissions. Ignore the fact > that my JSP is directly calling a function in my dataacess layer! ;-) > Will fix it once I get this to work:-) > > > I am stuck with the following problem. I do not know how to force the > interpretation of the string of tags generated. What is happening (as > expected) is that the tags just pass to the browser as they are with > OUT getting processed. > > A "view source" on my browser shows the following: > > <body> > <table width="100%"> > <tr width="100%"> > > <!-- The output of generateMenu function starts here --> > <layout:dynMenu config='MainMenu' left='10' top='10'> > <layout:menuItem key='All' link='All'> > <layout:menuItem key='Reports' > link='Reports'></layout:menuItem> > <layout:menuItem key='Student' link='Student'> > <layout:menuItem key='Enrollment' > link='Enrollment'></layout:menuItem> > <layout:menuItem key='Enquiry' > link='Enquiry'></layout:menuItem> > <layout:menuItem key='Search' > link='Search'></layout:menuItem> > </layout:menuItem> > <layout:menuItem key='Management' link='Management'> > <layout:menuItem key='Location' > link='Location'></layout:menuItem> > <layout:menuItem key='Centre' > link='Centre'></layout:menuItem> > <layout:menuItem key='Course' > link='Course'></layout:menuItem> > </layout:menuItem> > </layout:menuItem> > </layout:dynMenu> > etc..... > > > > Note that these tags are generated as a result of the generateMenu > function and are NOT getting processed further on the server side > before they > are pushed on to the browser. I believe JSP does only ONE pass > parsing. How do I circumvent this problem and get my tags to be > processed before they leave the server? > > Thanks. > Regards, > Raghu > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
