Ken>> I do not see an issue and have not had time to recreate. You may want
to simplify and see if you can get it to work.
tiles-defs.xml includes:
<definition name="common" template="/tiles/template.jsp >
<put-attribute name="copyright" value="Copyright notice here" />
<put-attribute name="pageTitle" value="Page title here" />
<put-attribute name="template-footer" value="footer.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="template-header" value="header.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="template-body" value="/tiles/content/home.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="side-menu" value=""/>
</definition>
template.jsp includes:
<%@ taglib uri="http://tiles.apache.org/tags-tiles"; prefix="tiles" %>
<table>
<tr><td>
<tiles:insertAttribute name="header " />
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<tiles:insertAttribute name="side-menu" ignore="true" />
</td>
<td>
<tiles:insertAttribute name="template-body" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>
<tiles:insertAttribute name="footer " />
</td></tr>
</table>
the page the user accesses contains only:
<%@ taglib uri="http://tiles.apache.org/tags-tiles"; prefix="tiles" %>
<tiles:insertDefinition name=" common ">
<tiles:putAttribute name="template-body"
value="/tiles/content/demos.jsp" cascade="true" />
<tiles:putAttribute name="side-menu" value="sidebar.jsp" />
</tiles:insertDefinition>
Same template w/o sidebar - key is orginal definition is empty.
<%@ taglib uri="http://tiles.apache.org/tags-tiles"; prefix="tiles" %>
<tiles:insertDefinition name="common">
<tiles:putAttribute name="template-body"
value="/tiles/content/demos.jsp" cascade="true" />
</tiles:insertDefinition>
Cal
www.calandva.com
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Kenneth Eschrich
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:20 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: RE: Ignore attribute of insertAttribute not working?
Thanks for the reply. My setup is probably more complicated than it
needs to be, but here are the pertinent sections.. Cascading is a
feature new to 2.1.0, is it possible that it doesn't play nicely with
ignore?
tiles-defs.xml includes:
<definition name="common">
<put-attribute name="copyright" value="Copyright notice here"
cascade="true" />
<put-attribute name="pageTitle" value="Page title here"
cascade="true"/>
</definition>
<definition name="template" template="/tiles/template.jsp"
extends="common">
<put-attribute type="definition" name="template-footer"
value="footer" />
<put-attribute type="definition" name="template-header"
value="header" />
</definition>
template.jsp includes:
<div id="content_body">
<tiles:insertAttribute name="side-menu" ignore="true" />
<tiles:insertAttribute name="template-body" />
</div>
the page the user accesses contains only:
<%@ taglib uri="http://tiles.apache.org/tags-tiles"; prefix="tiles" %>
<tiles:insertDefinition name="template">
<tiles:putAttribute name="template-body"
value="/tiles/content/demos.jsp" cascade="true" />
</tiles:insertDefinition>
Ken
Cal wrote:
> I just gave the insertAttribute with ignore a try and it did not get an
> error - I am using 2.0.6. What does your template look like? Is the
> insertAttribute included in another tag?
>
> Cal
> www.calandva.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Kenneth Eschrich
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:43 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Ignore attribute of insertAttribute not working?
>
> Using Tiles 2.1.0 (beta?)
>
> I have a tile template.jsp, which then inserts other tiles, header.jsp,
> footer.jsp, content definition, and side-menu definition. The two
> definitions vary with the page being loaded. Everything works great for
> the most part, except for one page which does not have a side-menu. When
> going to this page I got an exception stating that "Attribute
> 'side-menu' not found".
>
> Of course I could just create a copy of template.jsp which does not
> include the side-menu, but looking at the documentation I found there is
> an "ignore" attribute of insertAttribute which "if this attribute is set
> to true, and the attribute specified by the name does not exist, simply
> return without writing anything. The default value is false, which will
> cause a runtime exception to be thrown." So I changed the relevant line
> in template.jsp to <tiles:insertAttribute name="side-menu" ignore="true"
/>
>
> Now, when I go to this particular page I do not get the exception from
> before, but rather this: "org.apache.tiles.impl.CannotRenderException:
> Cannot render a null attribute"
>
> Any thoughts what could be going on here?
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
>
>
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Kenneth Eschrich
Application Software Engineer & IT
GraphLogic, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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