And soon it will be integrated with S2 as well :-) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-4161
Regards -- Łukasz + 48 606 323 122 http://www.lenart.org.pl/ 2014/1/2 Ken McWilliams <ken.mcwilli...@gmail.com>: > I arrived at the same conclusion when trying to remove my tiles > configuration. I upgraded to tiles 3 in the process and wrote a custom > result handler (sorry a custom "unknown result handler"). It is invoked > when conventions isn't able to find an appropriate result. > > Here is a stack overflow Q & A which covers that process: "How to > Integrate Struts Conventions with Tiles such that the benefit of > conventions is maintained" http://stackoverflow.com/q/16116142/514065 > > > > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Annotations usually help augment the class being annotated. I don't think >> annotating a Struts action with Tile definitions is very appropriate for >> this purpose. The purposes are just very different. XML seems more >> appropriate than annotations here. >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Christoph Nenning < >> christoph.nenn...@lex-com.net> wrote: >> >> > Dear List, >> > >> > >> > in our applications we often use the convention-plugin together with >> > tiles-plugin (tiles 2). >> > >> > convention-plugin has the advantage that it is not necessary to put an >> > entry in struts.xml for each action. So struts.xml usually is very small. >> > But we still have tiles.xml which needs an entry for each action. In big >> > applications that file becomes huge and hard to maintain. >> > >> > To fix that I created a bunch of Annotations and a struts2 result to be >> > able to create tile defs with annotations. >> > >> > >> > It would take me some time to turn that into a proper framework patch. >> > >> > Now my question is: Do you like that stuff? >> > >> > >> > >> > Sample application code: >> > >> > >> > -------------------------------------------- >> > tiles.xml >> > -------------------------------------------- >> > <tiles-definitions> >> > <definition name=".default-layout" template= >> > "/WEB-INF/tiles/layout/layout.jsp"> >> > <put-attribute name="titleMsgKey" value=".titleMsgKey" /> >> > <put-attribute name="content" value=".content" /> >> > </definition> >> > >> > <!-- no more entries ! --> >> > <!-- except you have several layouts --> >> > </tiles-definitions> >> > >> > >> > -------------------------------------------- >> > SampleAction >> > -------------------------------------------- >> > @Result(name=SampleAction.INPUT, type="tiles-annotation") >> > @TileDef( >> > extend=".default-layout", >> > attributes={ >> > @TileAttribute(name="titleMsgKey", >> value="text.key.test"), >> > @TileAttribute(name="content", value= >> > "/WEB-INF/tiles/test/test.jsp") >> > } >> > ) >> > public class SampleAction extends ActionSupport { >> > ... >> > } >> > >> > >> > -------------------------------------------- >> > web.xml >> > -------------------------------------------- >> > >> > <!-- a parameter for TilesListener is required which I wrapped in >> > a specialized context listener --> >> > <!-- that parameter is: >> > <param-name> >> > org.apache.tiles.factory.TilesContainerFactory.MUTABLE</param-name> >> > <param-value>true</param-value> >> > --> >> > <listener> >> > <listener-class> >> > org.apache.struts2.tiles.StrutsTilesAnnotationsListener >> > </listener-class> >> > <init-param> >> > <param-name> >> > org.apache.tiles.impl.BasicTilesContainer.DEFINITIONS_CONFIG</param-name> >> > <param-value>/WEB-INF/classes/tiles.xml</ >> > param-value> >> > </init-param> >> > </listener> >> > >> > >> > >> > regards, >> > Christoph >> > >> > This Email was scanned by Sophos Anti Virus >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> Paul >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
