Hello all,
I have a project i'm working on, that has the following view
requirement:
1) have a known filesystem directory into which static html files can be
placed. these html files have a marker somewhere in the body tag that
says <!-- dynamcStuffHere -->. The marker could be anything, that is
just an example.
2) my struts application builds html forms from a set of definitions in
a database. so it looks up the form in the database, creates a java
model from the data in the database, and the java model knows how to
render itself in html. the form also knows into which html file from
step 1 above it is to be placed.
I originally imagined the application as having two html files per form,
a header and a footer, and i would just use jsp includes to include the
appropriate one. So there'd be one jsp file like this:
<c:import url="/templateDirectory/${templateHeaderFilename}" />
<c:out value="${dynamicallyCreatedForm}" />
<c:import url="/templateDirectory/${templateHeaderFilename}" />
But the customer wants to have a single html file that can be easily
edited in the standard tools.
So i could:
1) generate the entire page in the action using a File, doing a search
and replace and then send the response myself, returning null from the
action.
2) use freemarker and have struts populate the request attributes with
the dynamically generated form html and the template filename, and then
forward to a freemarker template that the freemarker servlet will
populate with the template and form html.
Any other ideas or preferences for this?
Dave
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