bug in tiles controllerClass option?

[Klaasjan Brand <br...@topicus.nl>]

Hi there,

I'm trying to assign a Struts action to a tile. I've tried controllerUrl 
to a struts action and setting controllerClass to the same Action, but 
the response I get is that I have to extend Action or implement Controller.
When I changed the Action to implement Controller it works, but now I'm 
wondering how to pass request parameters to the class...

greets,
Klaasjan



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Re: bug in tiles controllerClass option?

[Cedric Dumoulin <ce...@lifl.fr>]

  Normally, you can use a Struts action as a tiles controller with no
modification. You should specify only one attribute controllerClass OR
controllerURL. If problem persists, it should be a bug ;-)

Here is an abstract of the (not officially released) documentation :
(http://www.lifl.fr/~dumoulin/tiles/tilesAdvancedFeatures.pdf  chapter 5.2)

.........
If you use a class name as controller, it should extends one of the following
base class or interface :

   * org.apache.struts.tiles.Controller
        o This is the Controller interface defining the controller method. This
          method receives as arguments the current Tile's context, and usual
          servlet parameters request, response and servletContext.
   * org.apache.struts.tiles.ControllerSupport
        o This is a basic implementation with an empty method.
   * org.apache.struts.action.Action (wrapper
     org.apache.struts.action.StrutsActionControllerWrapper is used)
        o If you provide a Struts Action subclass, it will be wrapped with
          appropriate class, and Struts' perform method will be called, but
          "mapping" and "form" attribute will be null.

Example of a controller inserted as a class :
<tiles:insert page="layout.jsp"

controllerClass="org.apache.struts.example.tiles.test.TestTileController" >
  <tiles:put name="title"  value="Test controller set in insert" />
  <tiles:put name="header" value="header.jsp" />
  <tiles:put name="body"   value="body.jsp" />
</tiles:insert>
..........

  Hope this help,

   Cedric


Klaasjan Brand wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to assign a Struts action to a tile. I've tried controllerUrl
> to a struts action and setting controllerClass to the same Action, but
> the response I get is that I have to extend Action or implement Controller.
> When I changed the Action to implement Controller it works, but now I'm
> wondering how to pass request parameters to the class...
>
> greets,
> Klaasjan
>
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