I've just about got everything worked out for using Freemarker to create
my Sitemesh templates and have it have access to all my Struts2
goodness. To do that I've got the following in my web.xml
<!-- ======================== SiteMesh Page filter
======================= -->
<filter>
<filter-name>sitemesh</filter-name>
<filter-class>
org.apache.struts2.sitemesh.FreeMarkerPageFilter
</filter-class>
</filter>
<!--Declare servlet for handling freemarker requests -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>sitemesh-freemarker</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.freemarker.FreemarkerDecoratorServlet
</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>TemplatePath</param-name>
<param-value>class://decorators</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<!-- FreeMarker servlet should serve all requests with .dec extension-->
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>sitemesh-freemarker</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.ftl</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<!-- ================ Struts2 dispatching and cleanup filter
============= -->
<filter>
<filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
<filter-class>
org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher
</filter-class>
</filter>
<!-- Allows access to struts2 features from Sitemesh -->
<filter>
<filter-name>struts2-cleanup</filter-name>
<filter-class>
org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ActionContextCleanUp
</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>struts2-cleanup</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>sitemesh</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
I think this is _almost_ working, but I'm getting an exception when I
try and hit a decorated page. It looks as though the Struts2 Sitemesh
Freemarker page filter is unable to get the locale to use and so throws
a NPE.
12:48:18.182 [btpool0-2] ERROR o.a.s.sitemesh.FreeMarkerPageFilter -
Error applying decorator: null
java.lang.NullPointerException
at
org.apache.struts2.sitemesh.FreeMarkerPageFilter.getLocale(FreeMarkerPageFilter.java:176)
at
org.apache.struts2.sitemesh.FreeMarkerPageFilter.applyDecorator(FreeMarkerPageFilter.java:143)
at
org.apache.struts2.sitemesh.TemplatePageFilter.applyDecorator(TemplatePageFilter.java:113)
at
com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:62)
at
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1040)
at
org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.ActionContextCleanUp.doFilter(ActionContextCleanUp.java:99)
at
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1040)
Looking at the offending code, it looks as tho the filter assumes that
the page being decorated is a Struts2 action and in my particular case
that's not true. I also have JSPs and other things that I want to be
decorated. For now I can subclass the FreeMarkerPageFilter and override
the getLocale() method and have it check if invocation.getAction() is
null and if it is return the configuration.getLocale(). Would that be
the correct behaviour?
Thanks,
Rich
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