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Posted to user@struts.apache.org by Paul Benedict <pb...@apache.org> on 2009/10/04 03:25:03 UTC
Re: Tags as template parameters?
Dave,
You're a valuable resource to the Struts board! Pascal should pay
attention to what you say.
Paul
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Kawczynski, David wrote:
> Sitemesh doesn't build the entire page... it is a Filter that grabs the
> response text (immediately before the servlet container sends it to the
> client) and adds to it. Decorators contain what is added to the
> response. I've found that if your decorators require a lot of run-time
> logic then yes, it will take more time then if it were never modified.
> (Exactly how much time depends on the decorator's logic.) Otherwise,
> the time to decorate a page is negligible. Be smart when writing your
> decorators... for instance, mapping different decorators to the
> diverging URI patterns is an easy way to avoid the time penalty
> associated with logic in decorators.
>
> HTH,
> -dave
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Pascal [mailto:pascal@voidmage.net]
>> Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 8:13 AM
>> To: Struts Users Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: Tags as template parameters?
>>
>> I just had a look at Sitemesh and it looks like what I want.
>> There is one
>> thing that disturbs me, though, it looks as if sitemesh will
>> build the page
>> every request, which causes quite some overhead, or am I
>> mistaken there?
>>
>> Pascal
>>
>> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:44:59 -0400, Wes Wannemacher <we...@wantii.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm on my phone so I only skimmed your message. If I read correctly,
>> > you should take a look at sitemesh.
>> >
>> > -W
>> >
>> > On 7/17/09, Pascal <pa...@voidmage.net> wrote:
>> >> Hello list,
>> >>
>> >> in Struts2 it is possible to do something like
>> >>
>> >> <html>
>> >> <body>
>> >> <s:myMainNavigationMenu />
>> >>
>> >> <h1>A page</h1>
>> >> <p>Some content</p>
>> >> </body>
>> >> </html>
>> >>
>> >> This works ok, but my problem is that I have to change every single
>> >> page, if i would like to have a custom footer for every page, for
>> >> example.
>> >>
>> >> Now my question is: Is it possible to do something like this?
>> >>
>> >> <s:useTemplate name="myCommonTemplate">
>> >> <s:setTemplateTag name="body">
>> >> <h1>A page</h1>
>> >> <p>Some content</p>
>> >> </s:setTemplateTag>
>> >> </s:useTemplate>
>> >>
>> >> And as template definition say
>> >>
>> >> <!-- Main menu -->
>> >> <table>...</table>
>> >>
>> >> <s:insertTemplateTag name="body" />
>> >>
>> >> <!-- Footer -->
>> >> <p>This is the footer</p>
>> >>
>> >> I know it is possible to use parameters for templates, but they
>> >> obviously have huge limitations as I can't just put the
>> tags there as I
>> >> did in my example.
>> >>
>> >> Also, I could do something like
>> >>
>> >> <s:myMainTemplate>
>> >> <s:param name="bodyPage" value="page1.jsp" />
>> >> </s:myMainTemplate>
>> >>
>> >> which I also don't want because I would have an extra (unnecessary)
>> page.
>> >>
>> >> So, is it possible to pass whole XML-Structures to
>> templates? Maybe you
>> >> have some reasons why I shouldn't want what I'm suggesting
>> here, I would
>> >> be eager to hear them! :-)
>> >>
>> >> Pascal
>> >>
>>
>>
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