Under the old struts/tiles framework, we had a definition defined as:
<definition name=".mainLayout" path="/pages/layouts/defaultLayout.jsp">
<put name="title" value="Please set your page title!"/>
<put name="header" value="/pages/layouts/defaultHeader.jsp"/>
<put name="body" value="" />
<put name="footer" value="/pages/layouts/defaultFooter.jsp"/>
</definition>
Under Tiles 2; the definition remains nearly the same:
<definition name=".mainLayout"
template="/pages/layouts/defaultLayout.jsp">
<put-attribute name="title" value="Please set your page title!"/>
<put-attribute name="header"
value="/pages/layouts/defaultHeader.jsp"/>
<put-attribute name="body" value="[[Empty Body]]" />
<put-attribute name="footer"
value="/pages/layouts/defaultFooter.jsp" />
</definition>
So far this makes sense and works. But under struts-tiles we were able
to create a single JSP that contained the following few lines:
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-tiles"; prefix="tiles" %>
<tiles:insert definition=".mainLayout">
<tiles:put name="title">Test JSP Page</tiles:put>
<tiles:put name="body" value="/pages/test-body.jsp"/>
</tiles:insert>
Our Tiles2 equivalent is now:
<%@ taglib uri="http://tiles.apache.org/tags-tiles"; prefix="tiles" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags" %>
<tiles:insertDefinition name=".mainLayout">
<tiles:putAttribute name="title">Test JSP Page</tiles:putAttribute>
<tiles:putAttribute name="body" value="/pages/test-body.jsp"/>
</tiles:insertDefinition>
But the problem seems to exist in the defaultLayout.jsp file itself.
The old struts-tiles one looked like:
<tiles:importAttribute/>
<tiles:insert attribute="header">
<tiles:put name="title"><tiles:getAsString name="title"/></tiles:put>
</tiles:insert>
<tiles:insert attribute="body"/>
<tiles:insert attribute="footer"/>
The above allowed us to pass the "title" string defined in the test.jsp
into the defaultHeader.jsp page and display it in that JSP using the
tiles tag <tiles:getAsString name="title"/>.
Unfortunately I am unable to reproduce this behavior with Tiles 2. The
Tiles2 equilvalent of my layout is:
<tiles:importAttribute/>
<tiles:insertAttribute name="header">
<tiles:putAttribute name="title"><tiles:getAsString
name="title"/></tiles:putAttribute>
</tiles:insertAttribute>
<tiles:insertAttribute name="body"/>
<tiles:insertAttribute name="footer"/>
I get the error "Attribute with name = 'title' not found".
This worked fine in struts-tiles so I'm confused as to what I need to do
in Tiles 2 so that I can define in my JSP which references the layout to
be used the page title and have it be passed from the main layout jsp
down into a particular included JSP inside the layout such as the header
where it should be used.
Thoughts ?
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