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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:16:49 -0600
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Subject: Re: Tiles with Annotations
From: Paul Benedict <pbenedict@apache.org>
To: Struts Users Mailing List <user@struts.apache.org>
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Annotations usually help augment the class being annotated. I don't think
annotating a Struts action with Tile definitions is very appropriate for
this purpose. The purposes are just very different. XML seems more
appropriate than annotations here.


On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Christoph Nenning <
Christoph.Nenning@lex-com.net> wrote:

> Dear List,
>
>
> in our applications we often use the convention-plugin together with
> tiles-plugin (tiles 2).
>
> convention-plugin has the advantage that it is not necessary to put an
> entry in struts.xml for each action. So struts.xml usually is very small.
> But we still have tiles.xml which needs an entry for each action. In big
> applications that file becomes huge and hard to maintain.
>
> To fix that I created a bunch of Annotations and a struts2 result to be
> able to create tile defs with annotations.
>
>
> It would take me some time to turn that into a proper framework patch.
>
> Now my question is: Do you like that stuff?
>
>
>
> Sample application code:
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> tiles.xml
> --------------------------------------------
> <tiles-definitions>
>     <definition name=".default-layout" template=
> "/WEB-INF/tiles/layout/layout.jsp">
>         <put-attribute name="titleMsgKey" value=".titleMsgKey" />
>         <put-attribute name="content" value=".content" />
>     </definition>
>
>     <!-- no more entries ! -->
>     <!-- except you have several layouts -->
> </tiles-definitions>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> SampleAction
> --------------------------------------------
> @Result(name=SampleAction.INPUT, type="tiles-annotation")
> @TileDef(
>         extend=".default-layout",
>         attributes={
>                 @TileAttribute(name="titleMsgKey", value="text.key.test"),
>                 @TileAttribute(name="content", value=
> "/WEB-INF/tiles/test/test.jsp")
>         }
> )
> public class SampleAction extends ActionSupport {
> ...
> }
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> web.xml
> --------------------------------------------
>
>         <!-- a parameter for TilesListener is required which I wrapped in
> a specialized context listener -->
>         <!-- that parameter is:
>                 <param-name>
> org.apache.tiles.factory.TilesContainerFactory.MUTABLE</param-name>
>                 <param-value>true</param-value>
>         -->
>         <listener>
>                 <listener-class>
>  org.apache.struts2.tiles.StrutsTilesAnnotationsListener
>                 </listener-class>
>                 <init-param>
>                         <param-name>
> org.apache.tiles.impl.BasicTilesContainer.DEFINITIONS_CONFIG</param-name>
>                         <param-value>/WEB-INF/classes/tiles.xml</
> param-value>
>                 </init-param>
>         </listener>
>
>
>
> regards,
> Christoph
>
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Cheers,
Paul

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