Bill, Thank you.
What is the Status of the 1.2 build? Is it stable? Also, is it specified in the documentation that the module attribute is only available in Struts 1.2? Or is this misleading in the documentation? Thanks again. Regards, Josh Holtzman American Data Company [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (310) 470-1257 Fax: (310) 362-8454 Sun Microsystems iForce Partner -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Siggelkow Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 8:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: html:link -- module attribute The "module" attribute of html:link is available in the nightly build (Struts 1.2). To make your links work with Struts 1.1 use the SwitchAction. Josh Holtzman wrote: > Hello, > > > > I'm developing a struts application with two modules - a website module, and > an Extranet module which permits users to login and handle administrative > matters. > > > > The login page is part of the Extranet module, however, because at this > point a user has not successfully logged into the Extranet module, the look > and feel of the page is still similar to the website. To paint this look > and feel, I'm using Tiles definitions for the website's navigation header > and footer. > > > > The problem I am encountering is that since these navigation links are > relative to the (default) struts module, when these tiles are loaded within > the Extranet module, the Struts framework generates them relative to the > current Extranet module - thus making them useless. > > > > In searching to make these links relative to the default website module > regardless of which module these tiles are loaded, I searched the html:link > API (http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/userGuide/struts-html.html#link) . > The documentation states that there is a "module" attribute. See the > explanation below: > > > > "Module:" > > "Prefix name of a Module that contains the action mapping for the Action > that is specified by the action attribute. You must specify an action > attribute for this to have an effect." > > "Note: Use "" to map to the default module." > > In reading this it appears that this may be the correct path to take. For > each of my navigational links, one logical thing to do seems to add the > following to each html:link tag. > > <html:link action="/home" module=""/> > > Where the module always references the default module. > > However, when I attempted to do this I find that this attribute is not > supported in the most recent build of Struts 1.1. "Module" is not a valid > attribute according to the Struts HTML tld. > > Can anyone assist me with this situation? Is the API documentation located > at this URL out of date? > > Can anyone offer any other ideas as to how to enforce that my navigation > links always reference the default application module. > > Thanks in advance. > > Best Regards, > > Josh Holtzman > > American Data Company > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sun Microsystems iForce Partner > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
