Re: Question on compositing Tiles dynamically from Action

[Brice Ruth]

This still doesn't keep me from having to duplicate entries for each 
section of our site (we  have 5 - garden, school, office, crafts, 
housewares) - and other non-Action driven pages need the same 
.baseLayout extended Tiles for each of the sections (.baseLayout.school, 
etc.) - and those definitions define the sections colors and a variety 
of other things.

Vic Cekvenich wrote:

Flip it and revrse it, go to tiles, that call actions:
<definition name="myPage1" extends="baseLayout">
        <put name="body" value="/do/myPage1"/>
        <put name="tile" value="/do/myTile"/>
/>
<definition name="myPage2" extends="baseLayout">
        <put name="body" value="/do/myPage2"/>
        <put name="tile" value="/do/myTile"/>
/>
And then yor Struts mapping forwards are
<forward name="Success" path ="/WEB-INF/jsp/myPage1.jsp"
...
<forward name="Success" path ="/WEB-INF/jsp/myPage2.jsp"

You can (should?) have a /do in a tile, for action to figure out what 
JSP to assemble. Also explained in Tiles 201.

.V

Brice Ruth wrote:

I have an Action that will do some DB things and currently return a 
pre-defined ActionForward that links to a pre-defined Tile 
definition. Examples are below. What I want to do, is save myself 
some typing, and assemble the tile definition dynamically in the 
Action, and then return a new ActionForward for that definition (or 
something like this). The reason being, the forwards & Tile 
definitions (currently) would need to be duplicated 4 additional 
times to support the different sections of our site.

Any suggestions? I'd need to be able to create definitions that 
extend pre-defined ones (like .baseLayout.garden) as well as setting 
attributes that reference pre-defined definitions (like .mainLayout). 
Thanks in advance!

Forwards:
       <forward
           name="displayProduct"
           path="garden.product"/>
       <forward
           name="showCategory"
           path="garden.category"/>
Tile-Defs:
   <definition name="garden.product" extends=".baseLayout.garden">
       <put name="mainLayout" value=".mainLayout"/>
       <put name="navigation" value=".navigation.level3"/>
       <put name="content" value="/common/tiles/productContent.jsp"/>
   </definition>
   <definition name="garden.category" extends=".baseLayout.garden">
       <put name="mainLayout" value=".mainLayout"/>
       <put name="navigation" value=".navigation.level3"/>
       <put name="content" 
value="/common/tiles/productCategoryContent.jsp"/>
   </definition>


--
Brice D. Ruth
Sr. IT Analyst
Fiskars Brands, Inc.


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