[TILES] How to include an action as body in a definition [SOLVED]

[Roberto Lopez Lopez]

Hi there, here comes a tiles beginner question:

I have written a base definition, from which extends another definition. Here is the content of the tiles-def.xml:

  <!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
              "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 1.3//EN"
              "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_1_3.dtd">
 
 
<tiles-definitions>
 
<definition name="baseLayout"
path="/web/jsp/struts/layouts/simpleLayout.jsp">
<put name="header" value="/web/jsp/struts/generico/header.jsp" />
<put name="menubar"
value="/web/jsp/struts/generico/menubar.jsp" />
<put name="body-content" value="NoLlego -- Change Me!" />
<put name="copyright"
value="/web/jsp/struts/generico/copyright.jsp" />
</definition>
 
<definition name="page.estimaciones" extends="baseLayout">
<put name="body-content" value="/estimacionesContent.do"/>
</definition>
 
</tiles-definitions>  

I have succeeded into configuring everything so I can instantiate the page.estimaciones definition from my struts-config.xml without any exception.

[...]
  <action path="/estimacionesContent"
type="com.encore.NoLlego.struts.actions.estimaciones.EstimacionAction"
name="EstimacionForm">
<forward name="success" path="/web/jsp/struts/estimaciones/estimaciones.jsp"/>
</action>  
[...]

Anyway, instead of the content of estimacionesContent.jsp, I get the following output:

:THIS IS THE HEADER
THIS IS THE MENUBAR
The requested resource (/NoLlego/web/jsp/struts/estimaciones/estimaciones) is not available
THIS IS THE COPYRIGHT

Where's my error??? I can't get estimacionesContent.do from tiles... Maybe is an stupid question, but I started to learn tiles yesterday... Please any tip will be appreciated!!!
[ July 03, 2008: Message edited by: Roberto L�pez L�pez ]

[Sachin Adat]

Hi,

I am not an expert in tiles, but If I am getting it right, you should give your path to jsp in the tiles definition and your path of tiles definition in your forward tag in your action mapping.

So replace

<put name="body-content" value="/estimacionesContent.do"/>

with

<put name="body-content" value="/web/jsp/struts/estimaciones/estimaciones.jsp"/>

and

<forward name="success" path="/web/jsp/struts/estimaciones/estimaciones.jsp"/>

with

<forward name="success" path="page.estimaciones"/>

In this way, you will forward in your action mapping to a tiles definition, which creates the view using the base definitions and forwards it to your jsp.

Please someone correct me If I am wrong.....

[ July 02, 2008: Message edited by: Sachin Adat ]
[ July 02, 2008: Message edited by: Sachin Adat ]

[Roberto Lopez Lopez]

Thanks for your response, Sachin.

I understand your explanation, but just displaying my JSP isn't my real objective. I first tested with that config, but now I need to get the estimaciones.jsp after processing EstimacionesAction.

This is exactly the timeline of what I want:

Browser request.

struts-config.xml maps to page.estimaciones on tiles-defs.xml.

page.estimaciones is composed of: header.jsp, menubar.jsp, copyright.jsp AND /estimacionesContent.do (which generates another jsp).

I know it's a little strange but I need to do some operations before getting the estimaciones.jsp.

Any idea???
[ July 02, 2008: Message edited by: Roberto L�pez L�pez ]

[Sachin Adat]

Hi,

I am not sure about your requirements, but I think maybe you need to use the tiles controller.

There is a good tutorial here
Tiles Controller Class by Patrick Peak

Check for Controller class.

[Roberto Lopez Lopez]

Thanks Sachin, nice page... I'll keep it at my bookmarks :-D

Anyway, I've just solved the mistery... I had an error at estimaciones.jsp (a tag mistake) and tiles just displayed that short message "The requested resource is not available"... I don't know why it didn't displayed the error on the console, but finally I found it.

Thank you!!!
[ July 03, 2008: Message edited by: Roberto L�pez L�pez ]

[Sachin Adat]

Great job ........