You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to user@struts.apache.org by Mike Baranski <li...@secmgmt.com> on 2009/10/20 20:19:25 UTC
Show jsps from different directories based on "theme"
So, I want to ship 2 versions (or more) of my views.
The will be in
/pages/jsps/theme1/x.jsp
and
/pages/jsps/theme2/x.jsp
I want the user to be allowed to set the theme, and my result tag in the xml
be something like:
/pages/jsps/{selected_theme}/x.jsp
Can I do that?
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@struts.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@struts.apache.org
Re: Show jsps from different directories based on "theme"
Posted by Jari Fredriksson <ja...@iki.fi>.
20.10.2009 21:19, Mike Baranski kirjoitti:
> So, I want to ship 2 versions (or more) of my views.
>
> The will be in
> /pages/jsps/theme1/x.jsp
> and
> /pages/jsps/theme2/x.jsp
>
> I want the user to be allowed to set the theme, and my result tag in the xml
> be something like:
>
> /pages/jsps/{selected_theme}/x.jsp
>
> Can I do that?
If you do not get anything better from the wiser guys, you could try
something like this in tiles:
<tiles:insert page="themes/${selected_theme}/x.jsp" />
in your actual x.jsp which is hard wired to the actions.
I don't know if EL works with tiles tags, but well that can be done with
other jsp tags too, I guess. (some @page include or whatever)..
--
http://www.iki.fi/jarif/
Life is to you a dashing and bold adventure.
RE: Show jsps from different directories based on "theme"
Posted by Mike Baranski <li...@secmgmt.com>.
>> > If you're using S2, you could always return the 'theme1' or 'theme2'
>result in
>> your action class and have the mapping for it.
>>
>> That's absolutely a disgusting idea, think about 10 themes, and add to
>> that user installable themes...
>>
>> A switch() at end of each of the action methods... no way.
>>
>
>I totally agree with you. However, I'm just giving Brian options to
>assess his situation: number of themes, whether to implement another set
>of library (more possible bugs, more memory usage, bigger code base,
>dependency issues, etc), potential growth of his project, etc...
>Personally, I don't prefer the selection of separate theme pages. I
>only use 1 page for the and change the CSS and layout within that page
>via include. Thus, no need for Tiles. Example, for a full layout:
>header, left side bar, content in the middle, right side bar, footer. I
>could then choose dynamically to whether include the left, right, or
>both side bar(s) for the other variations. Using this approach may
>require themes in DB backend. But it will give you the best flexibility
>since there's no need to redeploy your web app just because your
>client/customer want to have another theme layout with same content :)
>When I look at redeployment, I see downtime. Perhaps Brian
> could also look into JSP Tags too. I haven't finished my in depth look
>in it but it looks very promising.
Well, my "theme" is basically different users that have systems with user
defined fields, and different stuff stored in them. i.e. user1 at customer
x may be sensitive data that they don't want displayed, so it needs to not
be shown, while user y may have something they want displayed by the app.
It's not really about layout, but about what is shown or not shown for
different installations.
>
>>
>> > Or you could just use Tiles?
>>
>> Hopefully it helps, although I don't know how. I have only used Struts
>> 1.2.x and Tiles for it, and never did themes..
>>
>> --
>> http://www.iki.fi/jarif/
>>
>> Life is to you a dashing and bold adventure.
>
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@struts.apache.org
>For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@struts.apache.org
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@struts.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@struts.apache.org
Re: Show jsps from different directories based on "theme"
Posted by Tommy Pham <to...@yahoo.com>.
----- Original Message ----
> From: Jari Fredriksson <ja...@iki.fi>
> To: user@struts.apache.org
> Sent: Tue, October 20, 2009 7:31:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Show jsps from different directories based on "theme"
>
>
>
> 21.10.2009 5:22, Tommy Pham kirjoitti:
> > If you're using S2, you could always return the 'theme1' or 'theme2' result in
> your action class and have the mapping for it.
>
> That's absolutely a disgusting idea, think about 10 themes, and add to
> that user installable themes...
>
> A switch() at end of each of the action methods... no way.
>
I totally agree with you. However, I'm just giving Brian options to assess his situation: number of themes, whether to implement another set of library (more possible bugs, more memory usage, bigger code base, dependency issues, etc), potential growth of his project, etc... Personally, I don't prefer the selection of separate theme pages. I only use 1 page for the and change the CSS and layout within that page via include. Thus, no need for Tiles. Example, for a full layout: header, left side bar, content in the middle, right side bar, footer. I could then choose dynamically to whether include the left, right, or both side bar(s) for the other variations. Using this approach may require themes in DB backend. But it will give you the best flexibility since there's no need to redeploy your web app just because your client/customer want to have another theme layout with same content :) When I look at redeployment, I see downtime. Perhaps Brian
could also look into JSP Tags too. I haven't finished my in depth look in it but it looks very promising.
>
> > Or you could just use Tiles?
>
> Hopefully it helps, although I don't know how. I have only used Struts
> 1.2.x and Tiles for it, and never did themes..
>
> --
> http://www.iki.fi/jarif/
>
> Life is to you a dashing and bold adventure.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@struts.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@struts.apache.org
Re: Show jsps from different directories based on "theme"
Posted by Jari Fredriksson <ja...@iki.fi>.
21.10.2009 5:22, Tommy Pham kirjoitti:
> If you're using S2, you could always return the 'theme1' or 'theme2' result in your action class and have the mapping for it.
That's absolutely a disgusting idea, think about 10 themes, and add to
that user installable themes...
A switch() at end of each of the action methods... no way.
> Or you could just use Tiles?
Hopefully it helps, although I don't know how. I have only used Struts
1.2.x and Tiles for it, and never did themes..
--
http://www.iki.fi/jarif/
Life is to you a dashing and bold adventure.
Re: Show jsps from different directories based on "theme"
Posted by Tommy Pham <to...@yahoo.com>.
----- Original Message ----
> From: Mike Baranski <li...@secmgmt.com>
> To: Struts Users Mailing List <us...@struts.apache.org>
> Sent: Tue, October 20, 2009 11:19:25 AM
> Subject: Show jsps from different directories based on "theme"
>
> So, I want to ship 2 versions (or more) of my views.
>
> The will be in
> /pages/jsps/theme1/x.jsp
> and
> /pages/jsps/theme2/x.jsp
>
> I want the user to be allowed to set the theme, and my result tag in the xml
> be something like:
>
> /pages/jsps/{selected_theme}/x.jsp
>
> Can I do that?
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@struts.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@struts.apache.org
Mike,
If you're using S2, you could always return the 'theme1' or 'theme2' result in your action class and have the mapping for it. Or you could just use Tiles? I don't know about site mesh since I've looked into in depth.
Regards,
Tommy
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@struts.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@struts.apache.org