InsertAttributeTag throws ClassCastException on attribute added through 
ViewPreparer
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                 Key: TILES-511
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TILES-511
             Project: Tiles
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: tiles-jsp (jsp support)
    Affects Versions: 2.2.1
         Environment: Tomcat 6.0.24 on Ubuntu
            Reporter: James Cockrill
             Fix For: 2.2.x


I am adding attributes to the AttributeContext with a ViewPreparer as per the 
example at:

http://tiles.apache.org/framework/tutorial/advanced/preparer.html

The line of interest is:

        attributeContext.putAttribute(
            "my.attribute.name",
            new Attribute("This is the value added by the ViewPreparer"));

I am then attempting to access the attribute in the JSP, using the 
tiles:insertAttribute tag like so:

<tiles:insertAttribute value="my.attribute.name" flush="true" />

When I attempt to render the page, I receive a stack trace with the following 
root cause:

java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to 
org.apache.tiles.Attribute
    
org.apache.tiles.jsp.taglib.InsertAttributeTag.doTag(InsertAttributeTag.java:306)

The full stack itself is rather hard to retrieve as the system is on a separate 
network. A simple test-case would be to create a simple project with Tiles 
2.2.1, a ViewPreparer that inserts an attribute with a String value (as above) 
and a JSP that tries to insert that attribute. 

The offending line of code seems to be the call to model.start in the doTag, 
where the 'value' member is cast to an Attribute. It seems that there doesn't 
appear to be any attempt to resolve the 'value' member against the 
attribute-names in the attribute context.

Strangely, if I use "<tiles:useAttribute id="temp" name="my.attribute.name" /> 
${temp}" i get the content of the variable just fine.

The issue is either to do with the code being broken (erroneous cast?) or the 
example being incorrect.

Thanks

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