Hi,
I am attempting to change an existing tiles definition during an execution
of a Struts action. Example tiles definition:
<definition name="layout" template="/layout.jsp">
<put-attribute name="head" value="/head.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="body" value="/login.jsp" />
</definition>
In the action I want to choose a correct body value based on some
application specific rules. For example if I call: /user/1, the User
action's show method is executed and the body attribute's value would turn
into /user/show.jsp. This would prevent me from writing definitions for each
possible case.
Tile tutorial says I can get my hands on an attribute context (The class
TilesAttributeContext does not exist in my tiles plugin build). In the
action I do:
TilesAttributeContext attributeContext = container.startContext(request,
response);
attributeContext.setAttribute("body", "/user/show.jsp");
container.render("layout", request, response);
container.endContext(request, response);
I bet this is not the correct way to do it, because it seems that the tiles
definition overrides the value I insert here. Even if I do this in an
interceptor after the action result, the value is not changed.
I suppose there is no option in tiles to define definition with wildcards.
At least I did not find this option. I could point my action results
dynamically to a definition with wildcards.
<definition name="layout" template="/layout.jsp">
<put-attribute name="head" value="/head.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="body" value="/login.jsp" />
</definition>
<definition name="layout.*.*" extends="layout">
<put-attribute name="body" value="/{1}/{2}.jsp" />
</definition>
So my question is how would I achieve what am I try to do? Am I on the right
tracks and just missing something, or is this even possible?
I am using 2.1.1-SNAPSHOT builds struts-core and struts tiles-plugin.
Thank you
Pauli
