Thanks Adam --
I looked at this option, but would rather use EL in tiles definitions. It
would be a much cleaner (and intuitive) solution.
Scott
Adam Hardy (debian) wrote:
>
> stanlick on 09/11/08 00:29, wrote:
>> I would like to use EL in tiles definitions. Is it supported by Struts
>> 2.x
>> and is there a recipe for this? I downloaded Tiles 2.1.0 and reviewed
>> the
>> changes, but the web.xml has undergone radical change and I thought I'd
>> do a
>> little fact finding before performing open heart surgery on my working
>> application.
>
> Hi Scott,
> not directly in tiles.xml, however with just one more step, it's easy.
> This is
> the approach I took.
>
> Tiles.xml definition:
>
> <definition name="collatedAnalysisInsert.tile"
> extends="collatedAnalysisList.tile">
> <put-attribute name="tilesSubmitAction" value="collated-analysis/new"
> />
> <put-attribute name="bodyContentTile"
> value="/WEB-INF/jsp/collated-analysis/edit.jsp" />
> <put-attribute name="tilesContextHeader"
> value="collatedanalysis.insert.pageHeader" />
> <put-attribute name="tilesAdditionalTitle" type="string"
> value="collatedRun.portfolio.title" />
> </definition>
>
> Sorry it's a bit of dry example. The last attribute 'tilesAdditionalTitle'
> is
> actually the reference to a javabean object with nested objects found in
> the
> requestAttributes, but as far as tiles is concerned, it's just a string
> attribute.
>
> In the JSP, I can retrieve it from the requestAttributes using the JSTL
> requestScope[] map. I use it like this:
>
> <tiles:importAttribute />
> <h1 class="contextHeader">
> <fmt:message key="${tilesContextHeader}">
> <c:if test="${!empty tilesAdditionalTitle}">
> <fmt:param value="${requestScope[tilesAdditionalTitle]}" />
> </c:if>
> </fmt:message>
> </h1>
>
>
>
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