Janne,
You could set everything dynamically in the tile using something like this
(don't quote me if you like it, just look it up!):
public class TestAction extends TilesAction {
public ActionForward execute(ComponentContext context,
ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest
request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
if (request.isUserInRole("admin")) {
context.putAttribute("menu", new String("menu-admin.jsp"));
} else {
context.putAttribute("menu", new String("menu-user.jsp"));
}
return super.execute(mapping, form, request, response);
}
}
Then, you don't need the unstandard:bind or EL tags, just the tiles:insert
tags.
For more information, I recommend you read the Tiles Advanced Features by
Cedric Dumoulin. Link (from the bottom of the "Developer Guide" subsection
"Tiles" page http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/dev_tiles.html) is:
http://www.lifl.fr/~dumoulin/tiles/tilesAdvancedFeatures.pdf
Regards,
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Janne Mattila [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 3:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tiles - proper way for choosing a tile dynamically
I use Tiles to create pages that have their tiles selected dynamically based
on some information that is created in an action. One simple example could
be a menu tile, which is selected based on an attribute that is stored in
session. I created simple definitions like:
<definition name=".layout.basic-cd"
path="/pages/cd/layout/basicTemplate.jsp">
<put name="topleft" value="/pages/cd/content/common/topleft.jsp" />
<put name="header"
value="/pages/cd/content/common/logged-in-header.jsp"
/>
<put name="menu" value="/pages/cd/content/common/menu.jsp" />
<put name="bottomleft" value="/pages/cd/content/common/bottomleft.jsp"
/>
<put name="footer" value="/pages/cd/content/common/footer.jsp" />
</definition>
<definition name=".page.main" extends=".layout.basic-cd">
<put name="content" value="/pages/cd/content/main.jsp"/>
</definition>
...
then, in menu.jsp page I include either "admin" menu or "user" menu based on
the session parameter:
<unstandard:bind var="AdminRole" type="cd.business.Role" field="ADMIN"/>
<unstandard:bind var="UserRole" type="cd.business.Role" field="USER"/>
<c:choose>
<c:when test="${sessionScope.role == AdminRole}">
<tiles:insert page="menu-admin.jsp" />
</c:when>
<c:when test="${sessionScope.role == UserRole}">
<tiles:insert page="menu-user.jsp" />
</c:when>
</c:choose>
Now the question: is this the "proper" way to do this, or is there a more
elegant method?
PS. if those <unstandard:bind> tags confuse, they use jakarta unstandard
taglib to enable JSTL to compare the object in session to typesafe
enumeration values. In scriptlets this would be written simply as
<% if (cd.business.Role.ADMIN.equals(session.getAttribute("role")) { %>
<tiles:insert page="menu-admin.jsp" />
...
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