I have spent a lot of time on this today, trying to debug & understand
how the OptionsRenderer is working, but failing at it. I don't know the
internals of Tiles too much, so I'm a bit at a loss of understanding all
the contexts that are being pushed onto a stack and looked up/popped off.
Essentially, the error I get when trying to use the OptionsRenderer is:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: A matching list-attribute
name="my_opts" must be defined.
I tried to follow as best as possible the instructions on the
http://tech.finn.no/2012/07/25/the-ultimate-view-tiles-3/4/ site, but
the instructions seem rather old and obsolete and some classes
referenced no longer exist in Spring 3.2.4 and/or are configured
differently.
From what I can tell, it would appear that the context that the
OptionsRenderer is receiving is not correct; the attributes and
cascadedAttributes are both null, even though they should be set.
However, I have been unable to trace why this is happening.
I also note that this is an ongoing problem for several people already,
but no solution(s) have been proposed. Ex:
http://dhruvgairola.blogspot.de/2013/03/spring-mvc-with-apache-tiles-3.html,
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TILES-569, etc.
I have tried to instantiate the OptionsRenderer as follows:
public class TilesContainerFactory extends
CompleteAutoloadTilesContainerFactory {
@Override
protected Renderer createTemplateAttributeRenderer(BasicRendererFactory
rendererFactory, ApplicationContext applicationContext, TilesContainer
container,
AttributeEvaluatorFactory attributeEvaluatorFactory) {
Renderer renderer =
super.createTemplateAttributeRenderer(rendererFactory,
applicationContext, container, attributeEvaluatorFactory);
// create an Options Renderer
OptionsRenderer optionsRenderer = new
OptionsRenderer(applicationContext, renderer);
return optionsRenderer;
}
}
Can someone please explain if/how to get this class to work?
Thanks,
Eric
